Celia Deane-Drummond

Celia Deane-Drummond began her academic career in the natural sciences, focusing on plant physiology and agricultural botany, particularly the biochemistry of nitrogen nutrition in plants and the biophysics of ion transport across plant cell membranes using novel tracers. The global and ethical challenges of the use of GMOs encouraged her to retrain in theology, education, and environmental ethics.

As Director she leads the multidisciplinary research work of the Institute, develops and fosters its collaborative partnerships and projects, including those with the church and other allied organisations. She is also responsible for LSRI's strategic plan for growth and promotes its education and outreach work nationally and internationally.

Please note that Celia Deane-Drummond is on sabbatical until January 2023 and is not available during this period. In Celia's absence, Séverine Deneulin is the Acting Director of the LSRI.

Research Interests

Her main research interests are in theological and ethical engagement with the natural and social sciences on questions related to ecology, genetics, animal studies and anthropology. She was Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment from 2011-2018 and is currently Vice President of the Science and Religion Forum of Great Britain. She also serves as a trustee of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and is visiting Professor in Theology and Science at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University.

Education

PhD Systematic Theology, Manchester University

PGCE Religious Studies and Science, Manchester Metropolitan University

BA (Hons) Theology CNAA, Trinity College, Bristol

Post-GradCert. Christian Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

PhD Plant Physiology, Reading University

BA (Hons)/MA Natural Sciences, Part 2 Botany, Cambridge University.

Research Projects

Project

The Roots of Gratitude

01 September 2019

Selected Publications

The Wisdom of the Liminal: Human Nature, Evolution and Other Animals (2014)

Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred, ed. with Sigurd Bergmann and Bronislaw Szerszynski (2015)

Ecology in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology, 2nd edition, (2016)

Religion in the Anthropocene, edited with Sigurd Bergmann and Markus Vogt (2017)

Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines: On Care for Our Common Home, edited with Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser (2018)

The Evolution of Wisdom Volume 1: Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens (2019), Shadow Sophia: Evolution of Wisdom Volume 2 (2021).

Four Lessons from Laudato Si'

19 May 2020