My previous research interests were mainly related to religious and medical diversity; culture encounter issues/multiculturalism; religion/health/integrative medicine/care.
Current research interests mainly focus on whether the sociality changed by digitalisation and technologisation affects us on an existential level and may be a contributing cause of mental illness. Linked to this is also an interest in the importance of animals and nature to us and their ability to act as restorers of human health. Can the widespread mental ill-health of young people in part be related to constantly being online, a way of living which is overly abstract and "ungrounded" in which the more bodily and sensual dimension of life is attenuated?
I teach at both basic and advanced levels. I share teaching in the didactic-pedagogical strand of the Study Programme in Humans-Culture-Religion together with teachers in drama pedagogy.