Professor Jolyon Mitchell (MA (Cantab), MA (Dunelm), CertTh, PhD (Edinburgh).)
Honorary Fellow
- New College, the School of Divinity
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8962
- Email: Jolyon.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
Professor Mitchell's research and teaching focuses on: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding with particular reference to the arts (e.g. film, theatre, radio, visual arts as well as other new and old media). He has written and published extensively in these and related areas (e.g. the uses of different media arts in promoting peace and inciting violence; Communication Ethics; Theology & the Arts; Media, Religion and Culture; Memory, History and Religion).
Educated at the Universities of Cambridge (BA, MA), Durham (MA, Cert. Th.), and Edinburgh (PhD), Jolyon Mitchell worked as a producer and journalist for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 before he was appointed to the University of Edinburgh. As Director of the http://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/centres/theology-public-issues(CTPI), President of the national association for Theology and Religious Studies (TRS-UK) [and until recently Academic Director of the http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/(IASH)] he directs a number of interdisciplinary research projects and helps to host a wide range of public lectures and events. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Professor Mitchell has supervised over twenty doctorates and supervised well over 100 other postgraduates. Many of these completed doctorates have been published as books or articles. His former students now work in a wide range of countries all over the world. He continues to supervise and work with a wide range of doctoral students.
Professor Mitchell has himself given numerous invited lectures around the world including at the Gregorian University in Rome, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of the Philippines, the University of Sydney, the University of Tehran, the Theology Faculty at Butare, Rwanda and the Vrije University in Amsterdam as well as all over the UK, Ireland and different parts of North America.
Qualifications
MA (Cantab), MA (Dunelm), CertTh, PhD (Edinburgh).
Responsibilities & affiliations
Director, Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), http://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/centres/theology-public-issues
President, Theology and Religious Studies - UK (TRS UK), http://trs.ac.uk/
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
More information about research projects by Prof Mitchell are available on his Edinburgh Research Explorer profile.
Affiliated research centres
Project activity
More information about research projects by Prof. Mitchell are available on his Edinburgh Research Explorer profile.
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace
(640 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119424420
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Religion and War: A Very Short Introduction
(160 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198803218.001.0001
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Reporting refugees: The theory and practice of developing journalistic religious literacy
(14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203731420-4
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (E-pub ahead of print) -
Representing violence through media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316585023.030
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Digital representations of martyrdom
(16 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119100072.ch29
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Peacebuilding and the Arts
(508 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Peacebuilding through the Visual Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8_2
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Introduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17875-8_1
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Introduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416543_002
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Transforming the massacre of the innocents through art, theatre, and film
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416543_013
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)