Katie Edwards

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  • Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation

Dr Katie Edwards is a commissioning health editor at The Conversation UK and co-host of the Strange Health podcast. She previously worked as an academic, specialising in religion and popular culture. She is author of Speaking Up (Profile Books, 2027).

Experience

  • 2021–2024
    Honorary Research Fellow, University of Chester
  • 2014–2020
    Senior lecturer in the School of English, University of Sheffield
  • 2017–2020
    Co-director of The Shiloh Project, University of Sheffield
  • 2014–2019
    Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield
  • 2012–2014
    Lecturer in the Bible in Contemporary Culture, University of Sheffield

Education

  • 2008 
    University of Sheffield , PhD

Publications

  • 2018
    Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Christian Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2018
    Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives , Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2018
    Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Interdisciolinary Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2015
    Rethinking Biblical Literacy , Bloomsbury
  • 2012
    Admen and Eve: The Bible in Contemporary Advertising,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    Gender-based Violence
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • 2018
    Using Religious Imagery in Popular Culture to to explore and challenge everyday sexism, sexual harassment and abuse together with secondary school students
    Role:
    Co-investigator
    Funding Source:
    White Rose Collaboration Fund

Honours

Senate Award Fellow

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