Post-Doc, Faraday Institute
Durham University, Modern Languages and Cultures
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
University of Cambridge, German and Dutch
Project Manager / Post-Doctoral Research Associate
St. Edmund's College
About
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.
After reading Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham, she went on to obtain an M.Phil degree in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Cambridge. Diana remained in Cambridge to complete a Ph.D. in the Department of German and Dutch, also taking part in the departmental research exchange programme with the Free University of Berlin. Her doctoral thesis focused on the struggle of the German Protestant church against National Socialism, and specifically analysed the policies of the Lutheran Bishops of Hanover, Bavaria, and Wuerttemberg in the Third Reich. Immediately after her Ph.D., Diana became a 'Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Research Fellow' at the University of British Columbia, Canada. There she furthered her work into conservative-Lutheran ethics in the Third Reich, and began a new project on the development of pacifism in Siegmund-Schultze's ecumenical journal 'Die Eiche'. Diana subsequently became a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Technical University of Berlin, funded by the Study Foundation of the Berlin Parliament. Her work examined the ways in which the German Protestant 'Church Struggle' against National Socialism has been memorialised in the urban landscape of contemporary Berlin. Diana returned to Cambridge to join the Faraday Institute in February 2012.
Outside of work, Diana is actively engaged in shaping European research policy. She is a founding member of both the European Commission's 'Voice of the Researchers' panel and a pan-European collaborative research network committed to constructing a European single market of knowledge. Diana has also recently been appointed co-chair of a national special interest group on spirituality in higher education, and is an active member of the Council of the European SPES-forum, exploring the interface between spirituality, economics, and culture in the EU.
