Professor Kristin Aune

Kristin is currently Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University, having previously taught at Ridley Hall Cambridge and the University of Derby. She has also been a visiting fellow at Grinnell College, Iowa, Uppsala University and Deakin University.

Professor Aune has been working with Loughborough since 2022 advising on the university’s provision for religious students and staff. As a result, a working group was set up for interfaith staff and students, to include progressing recommendations of Professor Aune’s interfaith and worldview research, with a focus on both staff and students. The impact of Professor Aune’s work advising Loughborough also includes the launch of the National Higher Education Chaplaincy Network in March 2024.  

Professor Aune’s research expertise is in religion and higher education. She has undertaken pioneering work on gender, religion and feminism. Her book on single women’s marginalisation in the church led to a PhD on gender in evangelical Christianity, the findings of which were widely published. Fascinated by how women’s changing lives are affecting their faith commitments, she co-edited Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization, which traces the disaffiliation of women from religious institutions, exploring differences between Christianity, Islam and alternative spirituality.

Kristin's book Religion and Higher Education in Europe and North America (ed. with J. Stevenson) is published by Routledge