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Professor Mitchell's research and teaching focuses on: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding with particular reference to the arts (e.g. film, theatre, radio, visual arts as well as other new and old media). He has written and published extensively in these and related areas (e.g. the uses of different media arts in promoting peace and inciting violence; Communication Ethics; Theology & the Arts; Media, Religion and Culture; Memory, History and Religion).

Educated at the Universities of Cambridge (BA, MA), Durham (MA, Cert. Th.), and Edinburgh (PhD), Jolyon Mitchell worked as a producer and journalist for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 before he was appointed to the University of Edinburgh. As Director of the http://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/centres/theology-public-issues(CTPI), President of the national association for Theology and Religious Studies (TRS-UK) [and until recently Academic Director of the http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/(IASH)] he directs a number of interdisciplinary research projects and helps to host a wide range of public lectures and events. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

His recent publication, 'Peacebuilding and the Arts' explores the roles of film, theatre, literature, music, dance and visual arts in peacebuilding https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030178741 

Professor Anna King is a member of the Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace at the University of Winchester, you can find her academic profile here: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/king-1.php