Members Back to 'Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion' Directors David Cheetham - Professor of Philosophical Theology Yujin Nagasawa - H. G. Wood Professor of the Philsophy 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 Heather Widdows - John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics Administrators Rabab Anjum Narmin Ismayilova 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) Julio Bueno (God and infinity) Han Jen Chang (The evidential problem of evil and skeptical theism) Brent Constantine (The modal cosmological argument) Randy Everist (Divine causation) Luke Fox (Kierkegaard and religious diversity) Michael Fox (Aesthetics and theology) Simo Frestadius (Theological epistemology) Gary Hall (Thomas Merton) Soufiane Hamri (Ontological and cosmological reasoning) 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) Stephen Torr (Evil and suffering) Kevin Vandergriff (The intrinsic probability of theism and naturalism) Ben Whittington (Free will and nonreductive physicalism) Wai Yip Wong (Religious pluralism)