Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Reader in Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Tutor for the School of European Culture & Languages (SECL), University of Kent, since 2004
SECL Director of Learning & Teaching (2011-12) and Head of Theology & Religious Studies (2006-8)
Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellow, University of Wales (1999-2001)
Ph.D, Redemption and Film, University of Wales (1996-99)
M.A., Death and Eschatology, University of Wales (1994-96)
B.A. (Hons.), Theology, 1st class, University of Wales (1991-94)
His work is at the intersection between religion and film. He is in the process of completing a monograph on Christmas and religion for Oxford University Press.