Diana Beech

Diana is a Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, carrying out research on the role of spiritual values in contemporary European science policy.

As well as co-ordinating the project "Restoring Spiritual Values to European Science: The New Renaissance", Diana is actively engaged in official European research policy networks. Most notably, Diana holds a seat on the newly established European Commission initiative - The 'Voice of the Researchers' (VoR) - which seeks to act as an interface between researchers and policy makers in the European Research Area.

Diana is also helping to co-ordinate a pan-European collaborative research network based at the University of Oslo, committed to analysing the governance of the European Research Area.

Further to this, Diana is also acting as co-chair of a national special interest group on spirituality in higher education (SHE), and is an active member of UACES and the Council of the European SPES-forum, exploring the interface between spirituality, economics, and culture in the EU.