Having grown up in Malaysian Borneo, I then moved to New Zealand to study at the University of Otago, where I completed my undergraduate and doctoral degrees in psychology and philosophy, under the supervision of Professors Jamin Halberstadt (Psychology) and Gregory Dawes (Philosophy). After this, I joined Harvey Whitehouse’s team at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, before arriving at Coventry University, first at the Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science and then at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, where I am an Assistant Professor. I am also an Associate Member of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion, and its Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion. Since 2021, I am also the incumbent Church of England parish priest in the Benefice of Cocking with West Lavington, Bepton, and Heyshott, in the Diocese of Chichester.

My editorial roles and publications are listed (and available to download) here, and my CV is available here. Information about my involvement as advisor or consultant to research projects and funding bodies is available on my Research Consulting page.