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Recent developments with regard to research activities at the GCRI at Tabor Adelaide


  • In a joint application with the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University in the UK, Tabor Adelaide received an award from the Templeton Foundation for a grant of approximately $AU20,000 to assist in the costs associated with the recent Tabor-Faraday conference on Science and Faith, which was held on 30th August – 1st September 2011.
  • Tabor Adelaide has been awarded a grant of $AU44,606 from the UK for a scoping study on the history of science with a special focus on the rise of modern medicine. We are hopeful that the scoping study will secure a comprehensive two-three year research project investigating the topic in greater depth.
  • Tabor Adelaide has been awarded a grant of $US53,000 for the funding of a project involving a series of regional science and faith conferences in capital cities in Australia. The meetings – to be held in March 2012 – offer an opportunity for Christian pastors and other leaders, on the one hand, and Christian school teachers, on the other, to meet specifically to reflect together on the relationship between science and faith in a spirit of openness and charity.
  • Tabor Adelaide has recently been selected by the International Society for Science Religion as an ISSR Library awardee. Our application was reviewed under a competitive judging process and the college will join a select group of only 150 institutions worldwide to receive a full set of the ISSR Library, which consists of 224 volumes spanning all areas of the interface between science and spirituality.
  • Tabor Adelaide has been awarded the research rights to the question of attitudes toward science among Australian churchgoers in the forthcoming (September 2011) National Church Life Survey (NCLS), which is the most comprehensive research into national church life and religious attitudes done anywhere in the world. The college is also working with the National Church Life Survey Inc. to investigate the attitudes to other faiths by Australian Christians based on the 2011 NCLS survey.
  • Tabor Adelaide has received a $4,000 grant from the Australian Research Theology Foundation Inc for a research project investigating the value of Sunday school education for the development and maintenance of spirituality.
  • Other research projects currently being explored with regard to grant funding include (1) a science and faith online engagement project, aimed at producing online interactive resources about science and the Christian faith, aimed specifically at the 16-25 age group; (2) a science and faith research capability project, with the aim of developing a directory of groups which are currently, or have been, involved in science-faith research in Australia and New Zealand; (3) an ecumenical research-based programme investigating church-based Christian education programs and the retention of young people in Australian Churches.
  • The Graeme Clark Research Institute continues to identify a range of other research projects that accord with its stated mission to engage in a range of activities that concern the harmonious relationship between science and faith, and (more broadly) the role of spirituality in family, society, education, culture and politics.

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