Dr Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Degrees & Honours:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Education (PGCTHLE)
- PhD (Theology)
- MMus (Early Music Performance Studies)
- MPhil (Philosophy of Religion)
- BA (Theology)
Awards & Prizes:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant received for postdoctoral project ‘The Epistemic Power of Music: On the Idea and History of Artistic Research through Music’ (University of Graz, from January 2022)
- Plater Trust Award for two-year project ‘Flourishing Inside: Developing Theological and Ethical Resources for Pastoral Work in Prison’, with Dr Elizabeth Phillips (2020)
- Visiting Fellowship, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (2014)
- John Clementi Collard Fellow, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, London (2009/10)
- MMus Scholarship, Trinity College of Music, London (2004)
- Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Scholarship (2000)
- Crosse Studentship (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1999)
Research Interests:
My interests lie at the intersection of theology, philosophy and music, focusing particularly on philosophical and theological anthropology, ethics, epistemology and worldmaking.
Biography:
I was an undergraduate at Murray Edwards and was at Jesus college for my graduate studies (MPhil and PhD) before completing an MMus at Trinity College of Music, London (now Trinity Laban).
I am Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, a visiting scholar in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, Salisbury, and Chair of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group.
I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Musicology at the University of Göttingen, Germany between 2012 and 2015 and have taught in departments of music, philosophy and theology at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College, London.