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Dr. John Hedley Brooke was the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. Before moving to Oxford in 1999 he was Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University. He is a former President of both the British Society for the History of Science and the Historical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Between 1989 and 1993 he was Editor of The British Journal for the History of Science. In 1995, jointly with Professor Geoffrey Cantor, he gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. His main books are Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991); Thinking About Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy (Ashgate, 1995); and (with Geoffrey Cantor) Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science & Religion (T & T Clark, 1998). He directs the European Science Foundation project on Science and Human Values and recently co-edited Science in Theistic Contexts, published as Osiris vol.16 by the University of Chicago Press.
Martin Rogers is the recently retired Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, where he was an Associate Fellow.  At the Farmington Institute he developed, for RE teachers, the Farmington Fellowships, the Farmington Millennium Awards and the Farmington Institute Special Needs Millennium Awards. He studied at Heidelberg and Cambridge (Natural Sciences and History).  After a short spell in industry he taught chemistry at Westminster School before becoming Headmaster of Malvern College (1971) and Chief Master of King Edward's School Birmingham (1982).  He was Chairman of the Headmasters Conference in 1987. He was seconded as a Nuffield Research Fellow to the Nuffield Chemistry Project from 1962 to 1964 and as Salter's Company Schoolmaster Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London in 1969. Among his publications are: John Dalton and the Atomic Theory (1965), Chemistry and Energy (1968), Chemistry: facts, patterns and principles (1972) (co-author) and Francis Bacon and the Birth of Modern Science (1976).  He edited the Nuffield O-Level Sample Scheme, (1965), the Foreground Chemistry Series (1968) and the Farmington Papers from 1993 to 2001.
Jean Bews Jean Bews lives, writes and teaches in the Shropshire/Worcestershire borders. She has published KS2 materials on myths and religious stories and contributes freelance articles to educational magazines.She is currently an upper primary teacher with curriculum leadership in RE and Citizenship at a large Shropshire primary school, and is a Lead Student Mentor linked to University College Worcester. Jean has a first degree in Philosophy from Warwick University and is working for an M.A. in Education. She has served on Shropshire SACRE and has contributed to the writing of KS3 materials for SRSP. Her interests include the Philosophy of Science, Ancient Philosophy and linguistics, as well as Philosophy for Children.
Alison Brown is the schools' adviser for Derby Anglican diocese; before this she taught for 11 years in primary schools in the Derbyshire area. She works with teachers, headteachers and whole schools to develop and enhance the teaching of religious education in the primary school. Alongside this work she has been involved in writing a Locally Agreed Syllabus, in teaching on the Stapleford centre's postgraduate diploma in RE and in wider involvement in the RE world as a committee member of the Professional Council for Religious Education.
Maria Dent is a Science AST and Second in department at da Vinci Community College, Derby. She has also worked in the primary phase, with responsibility for both RE and science. Before teaching, she worked as a Microbiologist (MSc Bacteriology) and a Clinical Scientist in Oncology; she is published in NK cell research and ovarian cancer (effect of growth factors and a joint project with the USA on drug testing).  Maria is a committee member of the Association for Science Education, and is currently working for an MA (Education) researching the development of thinking skills through learning styles.
Paul Hopkins is now a freelance consultant on ICT and RE, as well as senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He was previously a lecturer in Education at the Open University and variously a senior teacher, Head of Humanities and RE and Science teacher at Secondary schools in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and North Lincolnshire for a number of years. He runs a number of national and international web sites associated with Religious Education. Holding degrees in Science, Theology and Education he has published widely in these fields and has a national and international reputation on ICT and RE. He is the project manager and joint ICT advisor and webkeeper for the project.
Susanna Ainsworth. After ten years of teaching RE in secondary schools, Susanna was appointed Director of Education at St Albans Cathedral where, for the next twelve years, she ran an award-winning programme offering the building as a multi-curricular resource across all phases of learning. She is now a freelance education consultant and also administers the trials for the SRS Project.
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