Forming a
Christian Mind
Events catalysing discipleship for Christian postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers from across the UK and Europe
Events catalysing discipleship for Christian postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers from across the UK and Europe.
A double calling:
Vision-setting events to serve our double calling: working excellently with a Christian ethos and worldview, and harnessing our expertise for cultural apologetics and outreach.
Spring 2027 Conference
Minds, Machines and the Maker: (Re)making the Human in a Digital Age
Sat 6 Mar | Cambridge
What, exactly, makes us human? Are we biological machines? creative consciousnesses? socioeconomic data points? And what difference does this make to our academic work? Today, as new technologies like AI raise questions about being human for every discipline, many wonder who we are and what we might become. If ‘man is the measure of all things’, as some claim, we can’t afford to be confused; for if we don’t understand ourselves, how can we understand anything else?
The next Forming a Christian Mind conference will ask how our different fields think about ‘the human’, and hear how, in Christ, we see humanity as God intended it. Jesus’ life, death and resurrection demand we reconsider who we are and how we relate to both God and the world he’s made. We’ll discuss how a Biblical anthropology both challenges and breathes new life into our academic work and witness.
Fellows Programme
The annual Fellows Programme is a weekly term-time study programme run in Cambridge and online for up to 10 postgraduate students. Join a community of postgraduate students exploring the re-integration of your Christian faith with academic work, across a 22 week series of guided readings, talks and discussion.
Taster Sessions
Three sessions will run from late November to December 2026 for prospective applicants to ‘try out’ the programme.
Running in person at the Cambridge Christian Study Centre, or on Zoom for those based elsewhere. To register to attend, please use the link below.
London is a unique context with many universities but significant practical obstacles for mutual Christian support. We are delighted to be hosting termly mid-week evening seminars, with the aim of bringing together postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the city for mutual encouragement, as we think about our work and witness as Christians in academia.
The London seminars will function as a central hub for the postgraduate prayer and study groups in London’s universities (supported by The Association of Christian Postgraduate Groups), facilitating cross-city encouragement. In this way, they will support UCCF Research and IFES Europe’s Postgraduate Initiative in their work to catalyse support for Christian postgraduate students in London.
London Community
Thu 19 Nov, 6:30pm | Location tbc
Autumn guest event
Discover the distinctives of a Christian approach to the anthropological questions raised by AI.
Cambridge Christian Study Centre
The Cambridge Christian Study Centre is open at the Round Church during term time.
At one of our conferences, Dr Chris Watkin challenged each of us to set aside a portion of each week to study Christian literature and theology relevant to our academic work, as he himself had done as a student in Cambridge.
The Study Centre catalyses this vision with study desks, dedicated reference library and with coffee and lunch discussion with Centre staff including one of our conference speakers, Andrew Fellows.
Our conferences aim to help students study excellently with a Christian worldview and ethos, and to use what they study for cultural apologetics and mission.
Over the past few years, we have invited speakers such as Prof John Lennox, Rev Dr Craig Bartholomew, Dr Os Guinness, Rev Dr Chris Wright, Dr Rhoda Hawkins, Dr Anna Nickerson, Prof John Coffey, Prof Julian Rivers, Prof Russell Cowburn, Dr Daniel Hill, Prof Glynn Harrison, Prof John Wyatt, Dr Chris Watkin, Prof David Bebbington, and others.
- Fellows
For students and researchers who want to go deeper, we also organise an annual Fellows Programme, which encourages students to re-integrate the Christian faith with scholarship, teaching, research and the intellectual life. The programme includes discussion of guided reading and supported practical exercises through weekly seminars and 2 away days.
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Our events are primarily for postgraduates, post-docs and junior academics; however anyone who is pursuing an academic career in other ways is welcome.
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Discover some of our resources, including talks and videos from past conferences.
Prof Brad Green
'Why and How Should the Gospel Be Proclaimed Verbally in the University?'
Prof Karen Coats
'How Does the Gospel Shape Our Approach to Teaching in the University?'
Prof Glynn Harrison
'Identity, Politics and the Doctrine of the Image of God'
Dr Kirsten Birkett
'Introduction to Sources of the Self, Its Context and Significance'
Prof Brad Green
'What Is the Purpose and Value of the Academic Vocation in the Light of the Gospel?'
Dr James Eglinton
'Resourcing Protestant Anthropology: Living the Good Life'
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