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Linda Woodhead is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Society at Lancaster University, and is the co-founder of the Westminster Faith Debateswith former Home Secretary Charles Clarke.

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Science, Sex and Subjectivity

Janet Kourany, Angela Saini, Gina Rippon. Linda Woodhead hosts.

Science is often seen as the unbiased pursuit of truth. Yet some feminist thinkers argue these theories are limited by male language and logic. Is there a radically different, feminist way of doing science? If there is, what would it look like and could it prove more powerful than our current account of the universe? Or is there only one form of rationality and one tr...

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Biography

Linda Woodhead is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Society, and has been awarded an MBE for her services to higher education. In 2007, Linda became the director of the Religion and Society research programme, heading 265 academics in the field. This culminated in the Westminster Faith Debates which she co-founded with then-Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke. The debates featured Tony Blair, Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins. The head of the Royal Society of Arts, Matthew Taylor, described Linda as ‘one of the world's leading experts on religion’.