New Appointment

AHRC Research Associate. Dr Finlay Malcolm has joined the Religions and Theology department as Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Religion, Theology and Climate Change' project. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Manchester in 2017. He was then a Research Fellow in philosophy and religion at the University of Hertfordshire (2017-2022), and from February 2022, was a Research Associate at the Policy Institute at King’s College London. His research interests are primarily in philosophy of religion (especially trust, faith and belief), political philosophy (democracy and government), and the intersection of the two (the role of religion in political life, including climate change policy). He has written a book with Routledge and over a dozen academic journal articles. Whilst at KCL, Finlay worked across a number of social science-led projects, primarily on trust in climate change scientists, from which he produced a range of policy reports that have featured widely in national media.