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Academic & Teaching staff

Ken Belcher, Teaching Fellow

+44 (0)113 34 33549

Hellenistic poetry, Virgil and Ovid; Ancient grammarians; Etymologies found in the scholia to Hellenistic poets; Hyginus’ Fabulae. View full profile

Roger Brock, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 36785

Greek historiography, particularly Herodotus, and ancient Greek politics, especially citizenship and political thought; Democratic and oligarchic ideology; Greek political imagery. View full profile

Mikel Burley, Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy

+44 (0)113 343 7504

Philosophy of Religion; Indian Religious and Philosophical Traditions; Philosophy and Film / Literature; Death, Illness and Emotion; Wittgenstein View full profile

Graeme Gooday, Professor of History of Science and Technology
Head of Department

+44 (0)113 343 3274

Social History of Laboratories and Instruments, especially physics; History of Electrical and Computer Technology; Philosophy of Technology; Ethics of Technology; Gender, Science and Technology. View full profile

Steven Green, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 33540

Ovid, esp. Fasti ; Roman literature, esp. 1st century B.C. and A.D., in its literary and socio-political contexts; Roman religion; Manilius' Astronomica. View full profile

Ulrike Heuer , Senior Lecturer

+ 44 (0)113 343 1890

Theoretical Ethics; Value Theory; Theories of Practical Reasons; Moral Psychology; Normative Ethics. View full profile

Nick Jones, Teaching and Administrative Assistant

+44 (0)113 343 3390

The History of Philosophy (especially Locke and Berkeley); Philosophy of Humour View full profile

Chris Kenny, Teaching Fellow, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

+44 (0)113 343 3266

Science and Religion; Early Modern Science; Early Modern Philosophy. View full profile

Matthew Kieran, Professor of Philosophy and the Arts

+44 (0)113 343 3270

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art; Creativity; Ethics; Psychology and Character. View full profile

Rob Lawlor, Lecturer

+44 (0)113 343 7797

Normative and Applied Ethics; The Structure of Moral Theories; Gradability in Ethics; The Demandingness of Morality; Moral Luck; Punishment, Excuses and Mitigation; Political Philosophy. View full profile

Regine May, Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 33541

Ancient drama; The Latin novel; Apuleius' use of Roman comedy, tragedy and mime; Dramatic intertextuality in Apuleius, women in the ancient novels and Greek comedy, short articles on ancient medicine View full profile

Alistair McFadyen, Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology

+44 (0)113 34 33653

Theological anthropology and the doctrine of sin, especially in relation to contemporary secular thought and practice; theology and public life; policing, religion and theology; feminist theology View full profile

Seán McLoughlin, Senior Lecturer in Religion, Anthropology and Islam

+44 (0)113 343 3643

Religion, ethnicity, diaspora, identity. All aspects of the Muslim (especially South Asian heritage) presence in Britain. Ethnography of contemporary Muslim societies. View full profile

Christopher Megone, Professor of Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics, Director Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied

+44 (0) 113 34 33278 / 37788

Classical Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics (including Applied Ethics, especially Medical and Business Ethics); Moral Psychology and Practical Reasoning. View full profile

Philip Mellor, Professor of Religion and Social Theory

+44 (0)113 343 3650

Religion in social and cultural theory; embodiment, Christian theology and sociology; Durkheimian studies; problems of theory and method in the study of religion. View full profile

Aaron Meskin, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 33284

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Philosophical Psychology; Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Literature. View full profile

Rachel Muers, Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies

+44 (0)113 343 6748

Modern Christian thought; feminism, gender and theology; theological ethics, especially intergenerational responsibility. View full profile

Elizabeth Pender, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 33538

Greek philosophy, particularly the literary aspects of philosophical writing; Plato esp. responses to Greek traditions of philosophy, rhetoric and poetry. View full profile

Mel Prideaux, Teaching Fellow

+44 (0)113 3430461

Interfaith dialogue; Muslim-Christian relations; Islam in the UK; State and religion(s) in the UK; Fieldwork in Religious Studies View full profile

Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

+44 (0)113 343 3269

History and Philosophy of Biology, especially evolutionary biology, genetics and animal behaviour; History of the Human Sciences; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of History; Intellectual Property View full profile

Scott Shalkowski, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 33280

Metaphysics; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Logic; Modality; Scientific/Religious Rationality; Realism/Anti-realism. View full profile

Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3651

Islamic Studies, especially Sufism and Islamic reform, dreaming and dream interpretation in Islam, religion in Ottoman Syria. View full profile

James F. Stark, AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow

+44 (0)113 343 5218

History of Modern Medicine, Philosophy of Medicine and Disease Identities, History of Medical Technologies View full profile

Johanna Stiebert, Biblical Studies Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 37454

Emotion terminology of the Hebrew Bible; Ideological sub-texts of prophetic Hebrew Bible literature; Reading Hebrew Bible texts in the light of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; View full profile

Emma Tomalin, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3658

Gender and Religion; Religion and Development; Religion and Environmentalism; Buddhism and Hinduism; South and South-East Asia View full profile

Jonathan Topham, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 34 32526

Cultural History of Science in 19th-century Britain; Science and Religion; The History of the Book in the Industrial Age; 19th-century Life and Earth Sciences. View full profile

Kevin Ward, Senior Lecturer in African Religious Studies

+44 (0)113 343 3641

Protestant Christian ecumenical cooperation in colonial Kenya. History and spirituality of the East African Revival movement, church-state relations in Uganda. View full profile

Sophie Weeks, Lecturer

+44 (0)113 343 3359

Francis Bacon; History of Medieval Philosophy; History of early modern natural philosophy; Interactions between science, magic and religion. View full profile

Adrian Wilson, Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine

+44 (0)113 343 3261

History of Childbirth; English Voluntary Hospitals, 1750–1850; History of Pathology; Historical Theory; Literary Theory. View full profile