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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University

Suzanne Newcombe is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University and Director of Inform, an educational charity which provides information on new and minority religious movements based at King's College London.

She researches yoga and ayurveda from a sociological and social historical perspective. She wrote Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies with Karen O'Brien-Kop. She was a Research Fellow on a project funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020) entitled ‘Medicine, Immortality and Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia’.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University
  • 2020–present
    Director, Inform, based at King's College London
  • 2016–2020
    Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University
  • 2015–2018
    Research Fellow, Inform, based at the London School of Economics

Publications

  • 2021
    Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, Routledge
  • 2019
    Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis, Equinox

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Public Health after COVID: Beliefs, Religion and Competing Epistemologies
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    British Academy
  • 2021
    Census Stories: Identity, religion and demographic change in 21st century Milton Keynes
    Role:
    Co-I
    Funding Source:
    UKRI
  • 2021
    Promoting the Exploration of Religion and Worldviews in Schools – Fostering Coherency and Diversity
    Role:
    Co-I
    Funding Source:
    Culham St Gabriel's
  • 2015
    Medicine, Immortality, Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia
    Role:
    Post Doctoral Researcher
    Funding Source:
    European Research Council
  • 2004
    A Social History of Yoga and Ayurveda in Britain, 1950-1995
    Role:
    PhD Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Arts and Humanities Research Council
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