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This week students on the Contemporary Religious Landscapes were invited to the New Kadampa Buddhist meditation centre in Cheltenham as part of their exploration of the towns religious landscape. This was an excellent opportunity to immerse themselves in this emergent…

Level five students enjoyed an enriching two hours with prominent members of the Cheltenham Quaker community. Alison and Annie live their social justice and climate justice ethics. Alison has for many years been at the spearhead of social justice campaigning,…

Long standing friend of RPE @Glos and research colleague Parasurama Das has just opened this amazing cafe in Camden, London. Para has worked tirelessly to make sure that people living with food poverty have every chance to get a free…

We’re going back there one fine day!!!…It’s been a couple of years since we have taken students to Glastonbury, the beating hear of England’s spiritual and religious landscape. For millennia Glastonbury has been at the centre of a web of…

This week, as part of an ongoing series of student visits to places of religious and spiritual significance in the Cheltenham area students were invited to the local Quakers meeting house to discuss aspects of sacred space and social justice…

As students and lecturers of the study of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics we often find ourselves engaging with the subject of death and what may or may not come afterwards. Death plays is a theme that many find difficult to…

Students have once again been privileged enough to be invited to join the Cheltenham Hindu community in their mandir, just opposite the Francis Close Hall campus. We have developed a long-standing relationship with devotees who have had a substantial religious…

This week we warmly welcomed back Rohini Das for the Ty Krishna temple in Cardiff, but due to the fact that he was off to India the next day he could not make it in person and had to join…

Well done to all our students who came out the other end with amazing awards and a really great looking future. In fact the future’s so bright that some of our graduates joined Ben Trubody, senior lecturer in Ethics for…