{"id":18,"date":"2021-05-11T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:33:19","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>LASAR carries out world-leading national and international research to investigate the relationships between science, religion and the wider humanities in education. While all of our research projects are connected they fall into two main areas: Learning about Science and Religion and Epistemic Insight.<\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Learning about Science and Religion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Projects in this group seek to understand and inform the way that questions bridging science and religious are managed in primary and secondary schools. Some of our recent projects include \u2018Being Human: Discovering and Advancing School Students&#8217; Perceptions of the Relationships between Science and Religion\u2019 (Templeton World Charity Foundation 2014-2018) and \u2018Teaching Evolution in Rural Primary Schools\u2019 (Wellcome Trust 2016-2018). More information at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasarcentre.com\/\">www.lasarcentre.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Epistemic Insight<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These projects are concerned with how students, pre- and in-service teachers understand the Big Questions raised by science, technology and engineering within a multidisciplinary arena. Some of our projects include \u2018Working with Engineers to Teach Children to Think Like Engineers\u2019 (Royal Academy of Engineering 2018-2019) and work with The National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) and CCCU Outreach team on the \u2018Inspiring Minds\u2019 programme, a sustained activity project to engage school students from disadvantaged backgrounds in informal science learning (HEFCE 2017-2018). More at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epistemicinsight.com\/\">www.epistemicinsight.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research publications are listed at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lasarcentre.com\/publications\">http:\/\/lasarcentre.com\/publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASAR carries out world-leading national and international research to investigate the relationships between science, religion and the wider humanities in education. While all of our research projects are connected they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/learning-about-science-and-religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}