Project Staff
Staff associated with the Project for Spirituality, Theology and Health are listed below according to their academic department, along with a brief summary of their research interests.
Department of Theology & Religion
- Professor Chris Cook, Project Director — spirituality and health (especially addiction & mental health), the Philokalia and mental well-being (selected publications)
- Professor Douglas Davies — death studies, health morality, Mormonism, sociology/anthropology of religion (selected publications)
- Dr Mathew Guest — spiritual capital, evangelicalism, sociology of religion
- Dr Charlotte Hardman — shamanism, self and emotion, new religious movements, anthropology/sociology of religion (selected publications)
- Dr Marcus Pound — psychoanalysis, contemporary philosophy, Catholicism
- Dr Robert Song — bio-ethics, Christian ethics, church and society (selected publications)
School of Medicine & Health
- Professor Pali Hungin — interdisciplinary study of health problems, explanatory models of function disorder, socioeconomic influences on health
- Professor Joe Reilly — physical health and severe mental illness
- Professor James Mason — lifestyle and health, economics of behavioural change, research design
Other Associated Staff
- Dr Peter Collins — hospital architecture and health, hospital chaplaincies, narrative identity, sociology/anthropology of religion (selected publications)
- Dr Brendan Geary — spirituality and sexual disorders, human formation, counselling (selected publications)
- Rev Canon Dr Stephen Cherry
- Dr Andrej Petrovic
- Dr Ivana Petrovic
Research Associates
- James Jirtle, Website Manager
- Mrs Jo McKenzie -Project Research Assistant
