Established

2006

Graham Budd

Sarah Perrett (Associate Director);
Denis Alexander
(Emeritus Director) Robert (Bob) White

The Woolf Building, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0UB, UK

Cambridge
,
England

www.faraday.cam.ac.uk

Senior staff[edit]

The institute's Executive Director is Graham Budd, and its Associate Director is Sarah Perrett. The emeritus directors are Denis Alexander[2] and Robert (Bob) White.[3]

Hosting a workshop on "The Social, Political, and Religious Transformations of Biology" in September 2007. A book arising from the conference, "Biology and Ideology – From Descartes to Dawkins" (eds D.R. Alexander and R.L. Numbers) was published in 2010 by University of Chicago Press.

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A project on , faith, and Charles Darwin, in collaboration with the think tank Theos.[6]

evolution

The "Test of Faith" documentary, course, and books.[8]

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Commissioning the play Let Newton Be, which was reviewed in [9] and Nature.[10]

Science

Organisation of The Georges Lemaître Anniversary Conference, April 2011 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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Organisation of the ‘Sustainability in Crisis’ Conference, Sept 26–28, 2011, held at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

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The institute organises a wide range of activities, including:[4]


Activities of the Faraday Institute have included:


In his former capacity as director and now as emeritus director of the institute, Denis Alexander has commented on science and religion in UK national media[13][14][15][16] and international media.[17][18][19]


The institute has published 20 Faraday Papers discussing various science and faith issues, which are available online in 12 different languages.[20] Its website hosts recordings of more than 350 lectures.[21] Most of these lectures can also be found on the University of Cambridge Video & Audio Archive. Its work, along with that of other similar organizations, has led to a "complete reassessment of historical literature on the relationship between science and religion."[22]

Faraday Institute webpage

Evans, Katie, Interview with Rodney Holder, Course Director of the Faraday Institute, "Cambridge Medicine", Vol 21, No 1 (2007)

The Compatibility of God and Science