Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in theology at

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. She is also honorary visiting Professor in Theology and Science at the

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, UK and was Professor of Theology at the

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from 2011-2019. She teaches systematic theology in relation to biological science - especially evolution, ecology, genetics; bioethics - especially sustainability, ecotheology, and public theology. She gained a BA from the

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in Natural Sciences which became an MA in 1981, and in 1980 received her PhD in plant physiology at the

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. During the 1980s she was a lecturer in plant physiology at

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. Here she also took a BA in Theology, them moved to

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to take a PhD in Systematic Theology. She also has a

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from

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, was completed in 1994. In 2000 she was appointed to a professorship in theology and the biological sciences at the

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which she held until her move to the University of Notre Dame in 2011. In 2018, she founded the Laudato Si' Research Institute at Campion Hall in Oxford, where she is the current director. She is also the editor of the international journal '' Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences''.Celia Deane-Drummond
from the Human Flourishing Research Project, retrieved 19 February 2021 Her books include: * Genetics and Christian Ethics (2006) * Ecotheology (2008) * Christ and Evolution (2009) * Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals (joint ed.) (2009) * Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (joint ed.) (2011) WorldCat Identities
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*http://www.counterbalance.org/bio/cdrumm-frame.html *http://al.nd.edu/news/26739-notre-dame-theologian-to-lead-year-long-study-on-evolution-human-nature-2/ *http://reilly.nd.edu/peopleDetail.aspx?id=2237 Systematic theologians Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of Notre Dame faculty 1956 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people American theologians Ecotheology Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of Durham University {{US-theologian-stub