Prof Peter Hampson
Research Fellow
Professor Hampson has degrees in both psychology and theology. A Chartered Psychologist, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and Honorary Professor at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His scholarly interests include theology-psychology dialogue; Christian anthropology and moral psychology; religion, theology, and interdisciplinary in higher education and culture. He is a series editor for the Bloomsbury ‘Religion and the University Series’ which explores the role of religion and theology in the academy and wider culture. His most recent project, with Dr Tim Hulsey of the University of Tennessee, is a transdisciplinary study of moral psychology, habit, and 4E cognition. They are currently working on a book entitled, Understanding Moral Decision Making, commissioned by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Select Publications:
Imagery and Consciousness. (London and New York: Academic Press, 1983, with Peter Morris);
Imagery: Current Developments. (London: Routledge, 1990, with co-editors David Marks and John Richardson); Understanding Cognition. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, with Peter Morris); Theology and Philosophy: Faith and Reason.  (London: Continuum, 2012, co-edited with Gavin D’Costa, Mervyn Davies and Oliver Crisp); Christianity and the Disciplines: The Transformation of the University. (London: Continuum, 2012, co-edited with Gavin D’Costa, Mervyn Davies and Oliver Crisp); Theology and Literature after Postmodernity. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015, co-edited with Zoë Lehmann Imfeld and Alison Milbank); and numerous articles and chapters on cognitive psychology and theology, most recently in Theory and Psychology.