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Plenary speakers for this year's meeting, as detailed in the above poster, included Graham Ward, Dominic Erdozain, Andrew Edgar and Brian Brock.

Dr Brian Brock is Lecturer in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He received his DPhil from King’s College, London and has been visiting scholar in at Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen and Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Scripture in Christian Ethics (Eerdmans, 2007), Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (Eerdmans, 2010) and 1Corinthians (with Bernd Wannenwetsch) in the Brazos Theological Commentary series (forthcoming); he also edited (with John Swinton) Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church (London: T&T Clark, 2007).

Dr Andrew Edgar is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Among his research interests are medical ethics, the philosophy of sport and the aesthetics of music. He has been involved in a number of European Commission funded research projects looking at various problems in the field of bioethics. With D. Cohen, S. Salik and D. Shickle he published The Ethical QALY: Ethical Issues in Health Care Resource Allocations (Euromed, 1998). He has published two books on Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophy of Habermas (Acumen, 2005) and Habermas: Key Concepts (Routledge, 2006). Among the several chapter published by him is ‘Sport, Ethics of’, Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Vol. 4 (San Diego: Academic Press, 1997).

Dr Dominic Erdozain is Lecturer in the History of Christianity at King’s College London. His doctoral research established a connection between secularisation and the rise of sport in Victorian Britain. His book The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2010. He is currently working on a second book, entitled The Soul of Doubt: the Religious Roots of Unbelief, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Prof Graham Ward is the Fergusson Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is currently involved in a large international research project, sponsored by the British Academy, concerned with examining ‘The New Visibility of Religion in European Democratic Culture’. He has been senior executive editor of the Oxford University Press journal Literature and Theology and continues to edit several book series: including Radical Orthodoxy (Routledge), Christian Theology in Context (OUP) and Illuminations: Religion & Theory (Blackwell). Professor Ward is the author of many influential publications including Cities of God (Routledge, 2000), Christ and Culture (Blackwell, 2005) and Political Discipleship (Baker Press, 2009).

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