Revd Dr Adam Hood
- Position
- Director of the Graduate and Research Centre & Vice-Principal
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I have been a member of the Queen’s staff since 1999. I arrived in Birmingham after a period of doctoral study at St John’s, Oxford with Professor Keith Ward and prior to that I was a parish minister of the Church of Scotland working near Glasgow. In fact, I continue to work as a Presbyterian minister providing leadership to a congregation based in Liverpool. Being a Presbyterian, I am familiar with Reformed theology and practice, though my primary areas of interest and teaching are doctrine and the philosophy of religion. My doctoral work was a study of the relationship between religious belief and experience; most recently I have been working on an edited book with a focus on the life and thought of John Oman. A recent interest is ‘religious naturalism’, such as is found in the writings of George Santayana. Within the Foundation I oversee the work of the postgraduate research students, offer postgraduate supervision, teach undergraduate courses in doctrine and play a role in the governance of the institution as Vice Principal.