Bob Bowie

Professor Bob Bowie

University Research Centre Director

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I am Professor of Religion and Worldviews Education and Director of NICER, a University Research Centre focussed in Christianity and education.

I am a professor working in the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Education, leading a specialised research centre which undertakes mixed methods studies in hard to measure areas of education.

Currently I teach Epistemology on the Education Doctoral Program and Ethics to undergraduate students, and I supervise doctoral students. Prior to these roles, I taught on the PGCE Secondary Programme, leading RE for many years. Before that I taught English as a Foreign Language in Istanbul (Turkey) and Toyama (Japan), before teaching religious education in Kent. 

I research Religious Education, Human Rights Education, Christian education leading projects such as the Texts and Teachers project, Science Religion Encounters in the Classroom, and co-leading Faith in the Nexus. I also contribute to Worldviews education debates. 

Research Projects

  • Consolation and Hope in a time of crisis (extension): school students' reflections of transition and induction experiences through the pandemic.. Researcher(s): Dr Ann Casson, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Professor Bob Bowie, Ms Gill Harrison. [Project]
  • Consolation and hope in a time of crisis extension project: Listening to Year 10 students’ response to covid-related losses. Researcher(s): Mrs Ann Pittaway, Dr Ann Casson, Professor Bob Bowie. [Project report]
  • Consolation and hope in a time of crisis: Bringing Chaplains together to cultivate human flourishing and spiritual resilience in response to COVID-related losses for year 7 pupils. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Ann Casson, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Ms Rosanne Aantjes, Dr Sabina Hulbert. [Project report]
  • Consolation and hope in a time of crisis: Research Digests 01 07. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Ann Casson, Mrs Ann Pittaway. [Project report]
  • Cultivating deeper interdisciplinary dialogue for sustainability/climate change education (SCCE) across subject boundaries. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Mary Woolley, Ms Gill Harrison. [Project]
  • FAITH IN THE NEXUS: How has the pandemic impacted Spiritual flourishing at home?. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Ms Gill Harrison, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Dr Ann Casson, Ms Gill Harrison, Dr Tansy Watts, Ms Rosanne Aantjes. [Project]
  • Known by name: A Chaplain's Role. Researcher(s): Dr Ann Casson, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Professor Bob Bowie. [Project report]
  • National Society CofE MAT Big Questions. Researcher(s): Dr Mary Woolley, Professor Bob Bowie. [Project]
  • NEXUS Phase The very youngest children. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Ann Casson, Ms Gill Harrison. [Project]
  • Positive faith, worldview and spirituality oracy: a pilot programme to support primary RE teachers to foster good pupil talk. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Ms Gill Harrison. [Project]
  • Religious Education Advice for SACRE. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie. [Project]
  • Religious Identity, Bullying and Wellbeing at School: A Transnational Collaboration ORBIT. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie. [Project]
  • Spiritual Flourishing of the Youngest Children - Next steps. Researcher(s): Dr Ann Casson, Ms Gill Harrison, Mrs Ann Pittaway, Professor Bob Bowie. [Project]
  • Texts and teachers: the findings report. Researcher(s): Professor Bob Bowie. [Project report]

Research Supervisor

  • ‘Catholic Schools, Spiritual Capital and Formation’. Researcher(s): Mrs Ann Pittaway. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Mary Woolley. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • ‘Spirituality in Church of England Secondary Schools’. Researcher(s): Mrs Fran Bailey. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Mary Woolley. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • ‘The Grace of Faith, Reparation and Healing Wounds: An autoethnographic inquiry into Academy and Faith leadership’. Researcher(s): Dr Louise Mcgowan. Supervisor(s): Dr Gina Donaldson, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • A Postcolonial History of Education in Pakistan: 1947 to 1967. Researcher(s): Mr Zulfi Ali. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Christopher Anderson. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Interprofessional Education; An investigation of the experiences of pre-registration healthcare students.. Researcher(s): Dr Mark Gradwell. Supervisor(s): Dr Sue Soan, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Clare Andrews. Supervisor(s): Professor Trevor Cooling, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Paul Hunt. Supervisor(s): Dr Simon Hoult, Professor Bob Bowie, Professor Trevor Cooling. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Matthew Tate. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Facing the Hydra; An examination of the Otherness of Dreams and its Pedagogical Role in the Humanities. Researcher(s): Mr Simão Ferreira Cortês. Supervisor(s): Dr Simon Wilson, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Harmony in Healing at the Thymele of Epidaurus: An Imaginal Approach. Researcher(s): Mrs Bettina Borg Cardona. Supervisor(s): Dr Simon Wilson, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • How do Headteachers establish, articulate and maintain an ethos that provides a compelling vision of Christian faith? An international comparative study of Christian leadership in Schools.. Researcher(s): Mrs Claire Gibson. Supervisor(s): Dr Mary Woolley, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • How has the role of a secondary school Lead Mentor in Initial Teacher Education changed since 2010?. Researcher(s): Mr Alex Diamond. Supervisor(s): Dr Mary Woolley, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • How is religious oracy developed in children?. Researcher(s): Miss Louise Dadswell. Supervisor(s): Mr Sam Holdstock, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Listening to the voices of parents & teachers: Collaborative research to understand reasons for and ways in which the primary history curriculum can be diversified.. Researcher(s): Mrs Clare Stow. Supervisor(s): Dr Mary Woolley, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • MEANINGFUL LEARNING IN SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION Subtitle: A PORTRAITURE CASE STUDY AT A DUTCH CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ON THE ROLE OF WORLDVIEW IN STUDENT TEACHERS’ EPISTEMOLOGY. Researcher(s): Dr Elisabeth Meijer. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Professor Trevor Cooling. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Perceptions of educational values from the perspectives of students and teachers at a case study school, in comparison with the school’s stated values and current government policy documents. It explores participants’ own priorities in terms of educational values, as well as student’s perceptions of teacher’s values, and teacher’s perceptions of student’s values.. Researcher(s): Dr Stephanie Burke. Supervisor(s): Dr Sabina Hulbert, Professor Bob Bowie, Professor Lynn Revell. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF AKAN CONCEPT OF TRUTH AND WORLDVIEW ON RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION IN POST-COLONIAL GHANA: A CASE STUDY IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. Researcher(s): CANON Jacob Kyei-Baffour. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • The Swedenborgian infant school pedagogy of Samuel Wilderspin, 1820 - 1825: an actor-network analysis.. Researcher(s): Mrs Sarah Odhner. Supervisor(s): Reverend Dr Jeremy Law, Professor Bob Bowie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • TURKISH-DUTCH MUSLIM AND ORTHODOX REFORMED PARENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY NEGOTIATIONS IN CONTEXTS OF CHILDREN’S EDUCATION. Researcher(s): Ms Rosanne Aantjes. Supervisor(s): Professor Bob Bowie, Professor Lynn Revell. [Postgraduate Research Project]

I am a trustee of the International Symposium for Religion, Education and Values (ISREV) and also a trustee for Culham St Gabriels Trust. I am in the editorial boards of the Journal of Beliefs and Values, the British Journal of Religious Education and the International Journal for Christianity and Education. I am a non executive board member of the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education. I have also published several textbooks for Religious Studies with Oxford University Press. 

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bob.bowie@canterbury.ac.uk
01227922884
Old Sessions House (OS.0.23), Canterbury