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One of the joys of my work is to supervise bright and highly motivated undergraduates on a year-long dissertation project. This post will serve as a periodically updated guide to working with me as a supervisor on a UG dissertation at UOB. One of the joys of my work is to supervise bright and highly motivated undergraduates on a year-long dissertation project. This post will serve as a periodically updated guide to working with me as a supervisor on a UG dissertation at UOB.
Last updated: 24 Sep 2024 First, a few notes on topics that I supervise on:
- research into religion and ecology: specifically studies of Christian or Pagan environmental activism, policy or environmental NGO engagement around matters of religion. I'm also open to supervising post-secular studies relating to extinction, deep time, multispecies reflections, animal religion, phenomenology, attunement and work around embodied theologies
- Data science and sociology of religion projects on religion (see https://kidwellj.github.io/hacking_religion_textbook/)
- theological ethics or historical theology projects around themes related to ecology, technology, design, justice, pacificism
- economic ethics or Christian political philosophy, particularly modern or patristic Christian ethical reflection on these fields
- political theology, specifically intersectional projects that explore matters of political sovereignty, citizenship or agency from queer, Black, indigenous or feminist perspectives, also constructive or empirical projects on post/anti-capitalist Christian ethics and Christian socialism or Christian anarchism
- contextual theology projects drawing on traditions in Black theology, womanist theology, feminism, mad/crip/disability studies, or queer theology
- empirical studies of post/ex-vangelical experience and journeying, especially in relation to the moral life
- theological engagements with disability, psychology and psychotherapy, particularly projects that understand the social model of disability, and seek to work with radical / justice traditions in thinking about disability or neurodivergence theologically
- theology of culture and theological studies of arts, literature, and everyday culture
- practical theology or ethnographic investigations into matters of popular culture, activism, social movements
- spirituality studies into popular religious movements, new religious movements, or Christian mysticism.
Please note, I'm generally not interested in supervising projects that touch on reformation-era theology, or figures like Wesley, Calvin, or Luther. I will not supervise ethics projects on abortion, eugenics, or euthanasia. I'm not massively enthusiastic about systematic theology / doctrine-led projects. And while I'm very enthusiastic about comparative religious ethics and have been a champion for many projects in Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism, I don't have sufficient expertise in those traditions to act as a competent lead supervisor, so if you hope to focus on Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, or Buddhism, etc. I'd recommend you find another primary supervisor with sufficient expertise in those traditions and circle back around to me for some good chats about your interests which you can feed into your dissertation under the competent supervision of that other person.
Last updated: 23 Jan 2025
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