LSE Religion and Global Society blog
Editorial advisory board

Revd Canon Professor James Walters

Jim is the founding director of the LSE Faith Centre and its Religion and Global Society Research Unit. He leads the team in the centre’s mission to promote religious literacy and interfaith leadership through student programmes and global engagement, along with research into the role of religion in world affairs. He is a Professor in Practice in the Department of International Relations and an affiliated faculty member at the Department for International Development. He has published a number of books including Baudrillard and Theology (2012), Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations (2018), A Christian Theology of Chaplaincy (2018), Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions (2018) and Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict (2019). He was educated at Cambridge University and ordained priest in the Church of England in 2008 within which he is now a canon of Chichester Cathedral.

Andrew Dickson

Andrew is the Faith Centre and Religion and Global Society research unit Manager. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Faith Centre and its people and programmes.

Prior to LSE, Andrew has held a long-standing role with the Lokahi Foundation, an interreligious charity, where he delivered research and social impact projects with civil society actors, religious organisations, local communities, and governmental organisations across multiple countries.

Andrew is also completing an ESRC-funded PhD in International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he served as Programme Coordinator for the University’s Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative. His research explores religion and secularism in International Relations, with a particular interest in religious engagement across foreign and development policy, de-radicalisation programmes, and Freedom of Religion or Belief advocacy. He holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London; and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Hertford College, Oxford.  

Flora Rustamova

Flora was the Managing Editor of LSE RGS from August 2022 until February 2025. She joined the team after five years working in research, communications, and editing. She has a BA in Religious Studies and Anthropology, and an MA in Religion and Global Politics, both from SOAS, and she is particularly interested in religious activism, homonationalism and Islamophobia, and religions in the ex-Soviet world.