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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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