At Lincoln Bishop University, our research in religious education and values spans a wide range of global, interdisciplinary, and practice-focused initiatives. We are proud to collaborate with leading international scholars, centres, and journals that advance understanding of religion, spirituality, and education across diverse contexts.
This is the global scholarly body of researchers on religious education and values, with 333 members in 37 countries around the world. Professor Julian Stern is ISREV’s General Secretary.
For more: https://isrev.org.uk/
A globally-leading academic journal of research on religious education. Professor Julian Stern is Lead Editor of the journal.
A knowledge transfer partnership between Liverpool Cathedral and Lincoln Bishop University, led by Revd Canon Professor Leslie Francis.
Learn more: www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk/about-us/iverpool-cathedral-research/
Supporting religious education teachers in school-based project. Professor Julian Stern and Mark Plater have supported Farmington Scholars for many years at Lincoln Bishop University.
For more: https://farmington.ac.uk/
The St Mary’s Centre is a Christian research institute rooted in Wales that works in the broad fields of religion and education. Dr Tania ap Siôn is Executive Director, Emma Eccles is Research Associate.
For more: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/
The St Giles’ Centre supports religious education teaching and learning in Wrexham. Tania ap Siôn is Managing Editor of the journal Challenging Religious Issues published through the Centre.
For more: https://stgilescentre.org/
This major centre for research on implicit religion is directed by Dr Francis Stewart.
For more: https://www.implicitreligion.co.uk/bailey-center/edward-bailey-center
This major archive and research centre on religious and spiritual experience includes Revd Professor Jeff Astley as Alister Hardy Professor at Lincoln Bishop University.
This leading international scholarly body for researchers on solitude and related themes across all academic disciplines coordinates conferences, seminars and publications. Professor Julian Stern is President of the ISRS.
For more: https://isrs.usz.edu.pl/
Publishes research on the disciplines of theology and religious studies, particularly focusing on religions, morals, spiritual and intercultural education. Professor Stephen G. Parker is Editor-in-Chief, and Dr Ann Casson and Professor Leslie J. Francis are Associate Editors.
Publishes interdisciplinary religious, social scientific, political and economic research of theological relevance for rural churches and living. Professor Leslie J. Francis is Series Editor and Dr Neville Emslie is Editor.
Publishes research on the anthropological, sociological, psychological and philosophical aspects of emerging manifestations of religiosity worldwide. Professor Elisabeth Arweck is Editor.
Challenging Religious Issues is an online journal supporting A-level Religious Studies for students and teachers. The journal was set up through Welsh Government sponsorship and is now published by the St Mary’s Centre in partnership with St Peter's Saltley Trust. It is edited by Professor Jeff Astley.
For more: http://www.st-marys-centre.org.uk/resources/Aleveljournal.html
There are many doctoral researchers attached to WRERU at Lincoln Bishop University, working on themes as diverse as disciplinary approaches to religious education in the early years; connections between psychological type and religious expressions among your female Orthodox Jews; self-belief, motivation and mindset of maths learners with dyslexia; the problem of evil in Suhrawardī’s philosophy of illumination; Muslim women educators in supplementary schools; young adolescents’ ordinary theology and its implications for schooling; group work in religious education teacher training; an authoethnographic approach to religious education and learning in higher education; what is distinctive about Methodist worship from conceptual and empirical perspectives; the hermeneutics of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
We welcome queries from others interested in doctoral research with us.
In the first instance, contact Professor Julian Stern
For more: www.lincolnbishop.ac.uk/doctoral-study