Members Back to 'Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion' Directors David Cheetham - Professor of Philosophical Theology Yujin Nagasawa - H. G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Members Bakinaz Abdalla - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Philosophy of Religion Abbas Ahsan - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Philosophy of Religion Nikk Effingham - Reader in Philosophy Marie-Hélène Gorisse - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jain Philosophy of Religion Mohsen Moghri - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow Martin Pickup - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion Nataliia Reva - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Philosophy of Religion Administrators Rabab Anjum Narmin Ismayilova Associate Members Jeremiah Joven Joaquin William Paton Visiting Fellows Professor Chad Meister, Bethel College, USA (2015) Professor Dilipkumar Mohanta, University of Calcutta (2015) Dr Nick Trakakis, Australian Catholic University, Australia (2014) Dr Shalini Sinha, SOAS, University of London (2013) Dr Elena Kalmykova, University of Uppsala, Sweden (2013) Professor Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA (2013) Doctoral researchers Current Harold Barrett (The problem of impermanence) Anrew Blanton (Empirically informed solutions to the problem of divine hiddenness) Julio Bueno (God and infinity) Han Jen Chang (The evidential problem of evil and skeptical theism) Randy Everist (Divine causation) Soufiane Hamri (Ontological and cosmological reasoning) Mohamad Hejab (Burhān argument for God’s existence) Connor Leak (The moral and rational implications for suicide through the lens of anti-natalism(s)) Kristi Mair (Religious epistemology) Ryan Maze (The ontological argument for the existence of God) Chase Montague (An apophatic approach to the problem of evil) Marshall Naylor (Maximal God) Dre Rusavuk (Rationality, freedom and divine goodness) Shivanand Sharma (Bhedābheda Vedānta and the problem of consciousness) Iain Shaw (The problem of evil and practical theology) Jamie Turner (Ibn Taymiyya and the reformed theological tradition) Kevin Vandergriff (The intrinsic probability of theism and naturalism) Flora Wang (Religion and artificial intelligence) Ben Whittington (Free will and nonreductive physicalism)