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  Dr. DIANA BEECH  
 
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Title : Dr.
First Name : DIANA
Last Name : BEECH
University/Institution : University of Cambridge
Email ID : djb96@cam.ac.uk
City : Cambridge
Country : United Kingdom
State : Cambridgeshire
Zipcode : CB3 0BN
Department : Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
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Area of Research
European Science and Research Policy
Area of Expertise
European Studies
Brief Description of Research Interest :
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. The overall aim of her current project is to produce a book/manual that analyses and compares the current influence of spiritual values in the European Research Area (ERA) as it becomes a political reality with the aspirations of the founding policies of the European Council, the European Commission, national governments and universities.

Diana has a strong academic background in the Arts and Humanities. After reading Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham, Diana 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, Germany. 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. She is due to present her research findings in this area at a major AHRC and NWO-funded workshop on 'Forgotten War and Occupation Heritage' at the University of Cambridge in August 2012.

Alongside her post-doctoral work, Diana is actively engaged in shaping European research policy. She is a founding member of the European Commission's 'Voice of the Researchers' (VoR) panel and is on the coordination team for a collaborative research network committed to the theme of 'Innovating governance in the construction of the ERA', based at the University of Oslo, Norway. Further to this, Diana has also recently been appointed co-chair of an international special interest group on 'Spirituality in Higher Education' (SHE) and is an active member of the Council of the European SPES-forum, exploring the interface between spirituality, economics, and culture in the EU.
Representative Publications :

Publications                                                                                                                    

ü  Book chapter (forthcoming in an as yet untitled Leo Baeck publication): ‘Eine brennende wichtige Frage

für Volkstum und Christentum: Landesbischof Hans Meiser and the Impact of his Conservative-Lutheran

Anti-Semitism on his Historical Memorialisation’

ü  Article (Birmingham Journal for Europe, Vol 1. (1)): ‘Between Defiance and Compliance: Reconceptualising

the Kirchenkampf, 1933-1945’

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