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