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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
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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. |
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Adrian
Brown began life as a Natural Scientist, but now teaches
largely RS at the Ecclesbourne School in Derbyshire whose department
was awarded both a Farmington Award and the first CEM/Templeton
prize for work in Science and Religion in schools. Adrian has
published widely in the RE world, including co-authoring 'God
Talk, Science Talk: a teachers guide to science and belief' with
Mike Poole and Sue Hookway. He is a regular conference speaker
and former member of the executives of the PCfRE and The British
Society for the Philosophy of Religion. |
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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. |
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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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Jim
Robinson after completing his doctorate on Hinduism Jim
is now a teacher at a Secondary School in Oxfordshire and has
worked on and developed materials for teaching of Religious Education
with a number of publishers, including the Boardworks material
for interactive whiteboards. He is the joint ICT advisor and webkeeper
for this site. |
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Claire
Clinton has taught for 14 in a mixed comprehensive secondary
school, 8 of those running a busy and successful department. Since
the birth of her children she has worked part-time in her school
and filled her evenings as a freelance consultant advising schools,
education authorities and national bodies in the UK on RE issues
and initiatives. Claire was a member of the PCFRE executive for
6 years, and has written articles for RE Today and Resource, as
well as being part of the writing team in the KS4 text book ‘Religion
in Focus’, contributing to all 3 books as well as the teacher
materials. Claire is an A/AS examiner with OCR, and has been involved
with QCA in the writing and editing of the Schemes of work at
KS1, 2 and 3. Claire is passionate about teaching RE, and especially
looks to develop active ways of learning in the classroom |
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