Students

Conferences

• CiS runs an annual student conference. For details of up-coming and past conferences click here. Recordings of talks from our 2012 student conference are now available here.
• Transforming the Mind: Wisdom and Wonder is the 10th annual Christian Postgrad conference for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral researchers.
  This year’s conference is scheduled for 22-24 June, in the Derbyshire Dales.
  Speakers: Prof Sir Colin Humphreys and Prof Alison Phipps.
  Early-bird booking deadline 30th April. For more information and to register go to www.transformingthemind.org/ 

Multimedia

• Audio files from the 2012 CiS Student Conference can be found here, including talks on living out our faith as scientists at uni, how we approach the Genesis and bioethical issues and how we go about engaging others with science and Christianity.

Being a Christian In….

This is a series of subject-specific leaflets written by Christian students in collaboration with Christian academics in their fields.

• Being a Christian in Biochemistry (pdf, 676 KB), text only version (pdf, 183 KB)
• Being a Christian in Biology (pdf, 676 KB), text only version (pdf, 176 KB)
• Being a Christian in Engineering (pdf, 676 KB), text only version (pdf, 191 KB)
• Being a Christian in Earth Science (pdf, 732 KB), text only version (pdf, 206 KB)
• Being a Christian in Research (pdf, 676 KB), text only version (pdf, 176 KB)

Coming soon… Being a Christian in Chemistry, Physics and Cell Biology.

For the physicists and sports scientists amongst you, there are articles on being a Christian in these subjects on the UCCF Bethinking website at www.bethinking.org/your-course/.

Other Articles

• Making your mind up about the HOW of creation by Ruth Bancewicz.
  CiS often gets asked about, so we wrote this article to help Christian students to start thinking about how their faith relates to questions of origins.
• Help I’m a science student! Some advice for people thinking about studying, or starting science courses.

Essays

• 2011 CiS student essay competition winner
  Faith and Science – Mary Wood
• 2011 CiS student essay competition runner-up
  The Neurological Basis For Belief – Esther Ng

Links

• The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion An interdisciplinary department at Cambridge University looking at the interaction of science and religion.  Check out the Faraday Papers, the Multimedia section and the Faraday Courses.  The student discounts on the Faraday courses are substantial – definitely good to go to as a student if you can!
• Science and Belief A great blog from CiS Trustee and Faraday Institute Research Associate Ruth Bancewicz.
• Test of FAITH Great set of resources from the Faraday Institute, lots of video clips and articles on the website.
• The Christian Medical Fellowship. Lots of resources for thinking about bioethics
• UCCF, the Christian Unions
• bethinking.org A selection of science – faith articles on UCCF’s apologetics website.  Lots of difference viewpoints represented.
• IFES, the worldwide Christian Unions
• Friends International, for International students

Links for postgrads:

• Christian postgrad, a UK based ministry specifically for postgrads.
• Annual Residential Conference for Christian Postgrad students, run in Derbyshire each year. Recordings of previous year’s lectures are available to download from the website.
• Faith & Scholarship: A General Bibliography for Christian Academics from Graduate & Faculty Ministries by InterVarsity, the US equivalent of UCCF.
• Graduate Impact. Check out transitions articles for the transition to work
• Ministering to Postgraduate students in the UK