Research

The research of Heythrop staff covers the full range of Philosophy, Theology and Pastoral Studies. Details of individual staff interests are indicated in the staff research directory and the staff publication database.

Pastoral and Social Studies
The Pastoral and Social Studies department is home to the Heythrop Institute Religion and Society and the Religious Life Institute, and has particular research strengths in

• Practical and pastoral theology: contemporary issues, Church and society
• Contemporary ethical issues: moral imagination, business and finance
• Spirituality
• Psychology and sociology of religion: faith and personality, religion in secular society

Philosophy
The Philosophy department is home to the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, and is a founding member, and on the management committee, of the Institute of Philosophy, which is part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. The department has particular research strengths in

• Philosophy of religion
• Philosophy of mind and psychology, esp. agency, imagination, intentionality, perception, psychoanalysis, rationality
• Aesthetics, esp. fiction, imagination
• Metaphysics, esp. metaphysics of mind, natural kinds, necessity

Further research interests include the history of philosophy, esp. esp. ancient Greek philosophy and 19th-century German philosophy, Political philosophy, and Ethics, esp. metaethics and moral psychology.

Theology
The Theology department is home to the Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue and the Centre for Eastern Christianity, and has particular research strengths in

• Interreligious dialogue and comparative theology
• Christianity, esp. Middle East
• Church history, esp. early Church, modern Church in Ireland
• Systematic theology: Catholic theology, creation, political theology
• Biblical studies, esp. gender, Paul, Mark

Information for current staff and students is available on the College Intranet, Helios.

Contacts:
Director of Research: Dr Michael Lacewing
Research Degrees Convenor: Dr Edward Howells
Quality and Research Coordinator: Ms Kathryn Powell
Research and Policy Administrator: Ms Frith Hooton