The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Faraday Institute, based at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, is a leading research centre and think-tank on science and religion. The Institute is now seeking a senior academic to take up the post of Associate Director during 2012. The position involves research, administration and grant-writing. The Associate Director must be in full agreement with the aims and ethos of the Institute. The full-time post may be available half-time to an applicant with other prior research commitments. The remuneration package will be commensurate with the seniority and responsibilities of the position.

Applications quoting Position FP2/7 should include a c/v, naming three referees, together with a covering letter summarising the relevance of the applicant’s background and experience for this position. Applications (preferably by e-mail) should be sent to: The Faraday Institute Administrator, Mrs Polly Stanton, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, CB3 0BN, UK [ps400@cam.ac.uk] by 31st January 2012. A job description may also be requested from Mrs Stanton.

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At the beginning of October, the Faraday Institute’s Director, Dr Denis Alexander, and Course Director, the Revd Dr Rodney Holder, travelled to India to lecture on science and religion in two very different contexts. Along with Professor Ross McKenzie, Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland, Australia, they delivered a course module of 12 lectures on ‘Science, Religion and Apologetics’ to Masters degree students at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore. They then lectured at a day seminar entitled ‘When Science Knocks on Heaven’s Doors’ for members of the Indian Institutes of Science and local churches.

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Lecturing at SAIACS

Cultural evening at the Ashram

Felicitations and gifts from the Mar Thoma Church

A 36-month fixed term contract has become available for a Research Associate to carry out a project sponsored by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge [www.faraday-institute.org]. The research associate will conduct a study into the religious beliefs, behaviours and practices of people with various neurological diseases, under the supervision of Dr Alasdair Coles (University of Cambridge http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?Alcool), with whom the Associate will be based.

The successful candidate will have a university degree in a relevant biological science, ideally involving neuroscience and psychology. It is likely that the successful candidate will have a PhD in the neurosciences or psychology, but exceptionally we would consider offering this post to a PhD student.  The applicant must be in agreement with the ethos and aims of The Faraday Institute. The salary will be up to £27,478 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience, plus benefits.

Applications quoting Position FP2/2 should include a c/v, naming three referees, together with a covering letter summarising the relevance of the applicant’s background and experience for this position. Applications (preferably by e-mail) should be sent to: The Faraday Institute Administrator, Mrs Polly Stanton, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, CB3 0BN, UK [ps400@cam.ac.uk] by Tuesday 1st November 2011. A job description may also be requested from Mrs Stanton.  Interviews will be held in early November.

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A post-doctoral Research Associate position has become available at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge [www.faraday-institute.org]. The post involves working with Prof. John Wood [Imperial College, London] on a project entitled “Restoring Spiritual Values to European Research”. The overall object is to compare the current status of the European Research Area and its underlying values with those of the founders of the concept of European partnership, with particular reference to religious values.

The successful candidate will have independent research experience and an interest in international research policy and outcomes, and must be in agreement with the ethos and aims of The Faraday Institute. The salary for this three-year position will be up to £32,161 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience, plus benefits.

Applications quoting Position FP2/6 should include a c/v, naming three referees, together with a covering letter summarising the relevance of the applicant’s background and experience for this position. Applications (preferably by e-mail) should be sent to: The Faraday Institute Administrator, Mrs Polly Stanton, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, CB3 0BN, UK [ps400@cam.ac.uk] by Tuesday 1st November 2011. A job description may also be requested from Mrs Stanton. Interviews will be held in early November.

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The new Faraday Institute Grants Programme, the Uses and Abuses of Biology, is now accepting applications for funding.  Academics from any university in the world are invited to apply by 31st October 2011. 

The aim of the interdisciplinary Programme is to investigate contemporary non-scientific uses and abuses of biological thought (beneficial, benign or negative) in the domains of philosophy, the social sciences, the media, religion and politics.

Further details and applications forms are available at www.uabgrants.org and on the attached poster.