The academic staff members of the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society are:

William Ackah, Lecturer in Community and Voluntary Sector Studies (Research interests: community development and political engagement in black-majority churches; religion and ethnicity)

John Annette, Professor of Citizenship and Lifelong Learning (Research interests: faith communities and civic engagement; faith-community leadership; religion and conflict-resolution)

John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History (Research interests: theorising the study of religion; belief, unbelief and the socio-cultural significance of heresy)

Edwin Bacon, Reader in Comparative Politics (Research interests: inter-sections between religion and contemporary political movements and institutions in the West; religion in public life in Russia)

Sean Brady, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Research interests: religion, sexuality, gender and politics in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain)

Matthijs van den Bos, Lecturer in International Studies (Research interests: Shia Muslim thought and communities in Europe; religious transnationalism; religion in Iran)

Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology (Research interests: Religion and identity; anti-Semitism)

Dominic Janes, Lecturer in Cultural History (Research interests: religion and visual/material culture; religion and capitalism; religion and sexuality)

Keith Kahn-Harris, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society

Eric Kaufman, Reader in Politics and Sociology (Research interests: religion and demography; political dimensions of religion, nationalism and ethnicity; the Orange order in Northern Ireland)

Dina Kiwan, RCUK Academic Fellow in Citizenship Education (Research interests: religion and public policy, citizenship education in the context of religious pluralism)

Gordon Lynch, Professor in the Sociology of Religion (Research interests: religion, media and culture; religious trends in contemporary Western society; the sacred in contemporary culture)

Carmen Mangion, Lecturer in History (Research interests: gender, religion, philanthropy and health-care; Catholic female religious orders)

Daniel Monk, Senior Lecturer in Law (Research interests: religion, law and childhood; the legal system as a site for contesting the place of religion in public life)

Yasmeen Narayan, Lecturer in Sociology (Research interests: religion, ethnicity and identity; religion and everyday life-worlds)

Barbara Zollner, Lecturer in Islamic Studies (Research interests: Islamic theological and political thought in the Middle-East, contemporary forms of progressive Islam)