BA (Colorado State University), MA, PhD (Catholic University of America)

Dr Rosenberg founded and directs Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). He is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, teaching early Christian history and doctrine. His research and teaching interests focus on Augustine’s works, early Christian cosmology and its relationship to Greco–Roman science, culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought in this period.
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BA, MA, PhD (Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi), MBA (Huron University USA in London), PGC HE (University of Wales Newport)

Dr Pascal is the Academic Director of Student Programmes and Director of Studies in Philosophy at SCIO. She has over twenty-year experience of teaching and research at universities in Europe, the USA, and the UK. She specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, metaphysics, hermeneutics, ethics, and the Patristic tradition.
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BA (Houghton University), MA (American University)

Jordan earned a BA in International Studies from Houghton College and an MA in International Training and Education at American University. His master’s research focused on intercultural competency in study abroad.
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ThB, Mmin, MA (Carolina University), PhD (Azusa Pacific University)

Jeff earned a Th.B., Mmin., and M.A. from Piedmont International University (now Carolina University) and a PhD in Higher Education from Azusa Pacific University. In the past two decades, he has worked in Christian ministries and higher education in Virginian and North Carolina serving as a pastor, a university trustee, and in administrative roles in student affairs, including Dean of Students.
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BA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Kirkpatrick’s research interests currently centre on pagan religious cults in Roman Palestine. He is writing a book on C.S. Lewis’s connection with the classics.
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BA (Judson University), PhD (University of St Andrews)

Mitch Mallary completed his undergraduate studies at Judson University, earning a BA in both Christian Theology and Biblical Studies, before pursuing a PhD in Theology at the University of St Andrews.
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Anneke matriculated from Pro Arte Alphen Park High School in South Africa, where she studied hospitality studies, accounting, maths, and business economics. After graduating, Anneke initially came to the UK for a two-year working holiday, working in various pubs and hotels, and then went back to South Africa, where she gained 14 years’ experience in different areas of finance including bookkeeping, stock control, operations, and office management.
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BA (Sarah Lawrence College), MSt (Oxon)

Ning Xu completed her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College, earning a BA in Philosophical Theology and Science, before pursuing her MSt and now DPhil in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. Her research examines the implications of second-person relatedness and joint-attention for Christian theological epistemology.
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BA (Taylor University)

Sarah earned a BA in Women’s History and Marketing from Taylor University. She is a SCIO alum herself, spending a year in Oxford focusing on studies of Egyptology and history.
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MA, DPhil, PGDipLATHE (Oxon), FSA, FRHistS, FRGS, FHEA

Dr Baigent is the University Reader in the History of Geography. Her research lies in the history of travel, geography, and cartography.
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BEng (QUT), PhD (Cornell), MDiv (Duke), PhD (Queensland)

Pete holds a PhD in physiology, biophysics, and systems biology from Cornell University, and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on how Christians make sense of and relate to cultural practices and pursuits like science, from the early modern period to the present.
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BA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), MB, ChB (Edin.), BSc (Edin.), MRCPsych, PG Dip Cognitive Therapy

Dr Lawes has taught English in the English faculty of the University of Oxford and is lecturer in English at Regent’s Park College, teaching literature of the Renaissance period and literary theory. Richard’s interests include spiritual autobiography, poetry of the seventeenth century, psychological literary theory, and C.S. Lewis. He is also a qualified medical doctor and psychiatrist, currently working at the University’s counselling service.
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BSc (Lisbon), MA (Wales), DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Farias is Departmental Lecturer and Deputy Course Director of the MSc in psychological research at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Oxford. His reserach focuses on how beliefs in general — whether in God, spiritual forces, or humanity — work and affect our experience and interpretation of events, and on the motivational and cognitive origins of these beliefs, i.e. how they arise and are strengthened by environmental situations such as anxiety and stress.
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BA, BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Bell is currently a lecturer in philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and Regent’s Park College, Oxford. His research interests focus on the philosophy of Kant and the Enlightenment and the problem of free will.
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BSc (Wales) MSc (Reading), DPhil (Oxon) Dip TMM (Durham), FLS, FRSB, TSSF

Dr Gosler is Associate Professor in Applied Ethnobiology and Conservation and Fellow in Human Sciences, Mansfield College. His research falls at the intersection between ornithology and ethno-ornithology, i.e. the study of birds, and the study of human engagement with birds, especially within the broad context of nature conservation.
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BMBCh, MA (Oxon), MSc (LSHTM), DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Gaitskell is a Consultant Histopathologist and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. She studied medicine at Somerville College, Oxford, and later returned to complete a DPhil at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
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MA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Leeds)

Dr Stainer graduated in Classics and English from Oriel College, Oxford and went on to pursue her graduate studies in Victorian literature at the University of Leeds.

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BA (University of Dallas), MSt, DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Wallace graduated with a Bachelor’s in Classical Philology and French from the University of Dallas and an MSt and DPhil in Science and Religion under the supervision of Professor Alister McGrath. Her doctoral thesis examined the implications of embodied cognition theory for theological anthropology and doctrines of the soul.
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MA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Patrick studied philosophy and theology at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her research interests stretch from philosophy of mind through metaphysics and philosophy of religion to Christian doctrine. Some of her more recent work has focused on the theology of C.S. Lewis.
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BA (McGill), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

Dr Plaskitt is a specialist on the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, but her research interests also include the Victorian novel — particularly the gothic novel and novel of sensation — and children’s literature.
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