Dr Jolyon Mitchell MA MA CertTh PhD
Dr Jolyon Mitchell Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues
(CTPI) Senior Lecturer in Communications, Theology and Ethics Convenor of
Theology and Ethics Subject Area
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8922
Email: Jolyon.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk
Dr Mitchell's research and teaching focuses on: Peacebuilding, Violence &
Communications; Film, Religion & Ethics; Media, Religion & Culture;
Theology, History & the Arts; and Media Ethics.
Educated at Cambridge, Durham, and Edinburgh Universities, Jolyon Mitchell
worked as a producer and journalist for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 before
he was appointed to the University of Edinburgh. As Director of the Centre for
Theology and Public Issues he directs a number of research projects and helps to
host a wide range of public lectures and events.
He has supervised over a dozen doctorates and supervised well over 100 other
postgraduates. Many of these completed doctorates have been published as books
or articles. His former students now work in a wide range of countries including:
Ghana, Nigeria, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Tuvalu, Germany, Canada, the
USA and the UK.
Dr Mitchell is a regular broadcaster and he has given numerous invited lectures
around the world including at the Gregorian University in Rome, the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, the University of the Philippines, the University of Sydney,
the University of Tehran, the Theology Faculty at Butare, Rwanda and the Vrije
University in Amsterdam as well as all over the UK, Ireland and different parts of
North America.
Projects and interests
Dr Mitchell is author and editor of a number of books and numerous chapters &
articles.
His publications reflect some of his research interests and include: Media Violence
and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007); The Religion and Film
Reader (co-editor with S. Brent Plate Routledge, 2007); Mediating Religion:
Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture (co-editor with Sophia Marriage,
Continuum, 2003); and Visually Speaking (T&T Clark, 1999). He is currently
completing Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2011).
Dr Mitchell is also co-editor of three research monograph series with Routledge,
including on Media, Religion and Culture; and on Film and Religion.
Dr Mitchell is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, a member of the
national AHRC Peer Review College and acted as the only British Member of the
International Study Commission on Media, Religion & Culture, which consisted of 12
other scholars from nations including: Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Italy, USA and
Australia.
He has worked as a visiting Professor at Dartmouth College (USA), a visiting Fellow
at CARTS (Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Study at the University of
Cambridge), and a visiting Fellow at Ormond Hall, the University of Melbourne.
He was director of the Third International Conference on Media, Religion and
Culture, Edinburgh, July 1999 and director of the Fourth International Conference on
Peacemaking in the World of Film: from Conflict to Reconciliation, Edinburgh, July
2007. He has carried out original research in a wide range of countries around
Europe and beyond including: Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana, and the Philippines. Dr
Mitchell continues to contribute regularly to different media, providing specialist
analysis on topics related to religion and media.

Jolyon Mitchell media work

International Study Commission on Media, Religion & Culture
Postgraduate supervision
Dr Mitchell is a committed and enthusiastic doctoral supervisor in a wide range of
subjects related to his research, teaching and role as Director of CTPI.
Selected publications
'Media Violence and Christian Ethics'. Cambridge University Press, 2007, c.pp.347

'Media Violence and Christian Ethics'
Visually Speaking: Radio and the Renaissance of Preaching , Edinburgh: T&T Clark,
1999 and then published in America - Louisville, Kentucky: WJKP, 2000, pp.294
Co-editor, The Film and Religion Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2007,
c. pp.470
Co-editor, Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture,
London: Continuum, 2003, pp.407
Contributing editor:
“Projecting Religion and Beyond in Global Film”. SWC, Vol.15 Part 2, 2009, pp. 105198.
“Peacemaking in the World of Film”. SWC, Vol.14 Part 2, 2008, pp.104.
“Online Religion”, SWC, Vol.13 Part 3, 2007, pp. 104.
“Christianity and Television”, SWC, Vol.11 Part 1, 2005, pp.160.
Additional publications
A list of additional publications is available in PDF format.

Jolyon Mitchell additional publications
Image Gallery
Click an image to view the full size version.



