Celia Deane-Drummond

Professor Celia Deane-Drummond graduated with an M.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading and Letcombe Research Station (Oxford University). She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Vancouver, Canada and the biophysics group at Cambridge University and as a lecturer at Durham University. She then began to focus on theology, graduating with a Ph.D. in Moltmann's theology at Manchester University. After working at the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture in Manchester, she obtained a PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University and began teaching at Chester College in 1994. Her scientific and theological experiences have served her well in research activity. Celia has published over thirty articles in science journals during her scientific career and has continued to be active in research, particularly in relating science to theology. Her first major book was A Handbook in Theology and Ecology (SCM, 1996), though since then she has published a number of other books, the most recent being Creation through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology (T & T Clark, 2000). She was recently awarded a chair in Theology and the Biological Sciences at Chester College.