Believing vaguely: Religious socialization and Christian beliefs in Britain (2015)
Journal Article

Sociological research focusing on religion has customarily placed processes of socialization at the core of understanding not only individual religious identification, but also the broad aggregate transmission and survival of a generalised religious... Read More about Believing vaguely: Religious socialization and Christian beliefs in Britain.

Faith and religion (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter investigates the impact of LGBT activist groups within the major world religions. It focuses upon a number of crucial variables which shape mobilisation and levels of success: - The views of a particular religion in the way that it con... Read More about Faith and religion.

Attitudes towards and understandings of sexual violence: A study of secondary school students and staff in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at work with secondary school students on their attitudes to sex, sexual harm and sexual harm policy.

The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces the ongoing effects of eugenics on discourses of ‘disability’, analysing in particular the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I use the sociological methodology of grounded theory-building based on live... Read More about The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights.

Of (auto-)immune life: Derrida, Esposito, Agamben (2015)
Book Chapter

Chapter: https://www.academia.edu/3776661/Of_Auto-_Immune_Life_Derrida_Esposito_Agamben_draft_of_a_text_to_be_published_in_a_volume_entitled_Medicine_and_Society_edited_by_D._Meacham_

The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind (2015)
Journal Article

This paper argues for an inflationary and capacity-relative understanding of human enhancement technology. In doing so it echoes the approach followed by Buchanan (2011a, 2011b). Particular emphasis is placed on the point that capacities themselves a... Read More about The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind.

Lighthouse interim report (2015)
Report

Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity (2015)
Book

Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin (2015)
Journal Article

In this article we examine the possible challenges facing the use of the concept of « care » or « taking care », when the carer is an autonomous robot, what we call an « artificial medical care agent ». In other words, we ask if robots can care. Agai... Read More about Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin.

Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology (2015)
Journal Article

The article addresses Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy of nature in relation to two of its central operating concepts, behaviour and latency. It then examines some contemporary arguments for an extended evolutionary synthesis from the perspective of... Read More about Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology.

Medicine and society, new continental perspectives (Preface) (2015)
Book Chapter