ARC Research Interests

• Ethnographic and anthropological methodologies for the exploration of  the afterlife, the spirit world, mediumship, trance, possession, shamanism, healing, and religious experience
• Mediumistic practices and alternative approaches to wellbeing
• The effect of afterlife beliefs on spiritual, mental and physical health

• Spirit mediumship and possession in cross-cultural contexts
• Spirit mediumship, possession and personhood
• Cosmologies of the afterlife in non-Western, Western and esoteric traditions
• Hypnotic regression, past-life and interlife or life between lives (LBL) studies
• Near death experiences (NDEs) and their impact on individual well-being

Current Research Projects

• Spirit Mediumship in the Vale do Amanhecer, Brazil (Emily Pierini)
• Spirit Mediumship in Singapore and Taiwan (Fabian Graham)
• An Ethnography of the Afterlife (Fiona Bowie)
• Spirit Mediumship in the UK (Jack Hunter)