Elizabeth Burns was Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Heythrop College

Heythrop College

Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology, as well as research in related fields.It was founded...

, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 from 2003–2008 and lectures in Philosophy of Religion.

Career

She has a BD (specialising in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics) from King’s College London, and a PhD from Queens’ College, Cambridge. She was a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Suffolk College, Ipswich from 1992 until she came to Heythrop in 1999. From 2000-2003 she was the Course Director for the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 BD for External Students.

She currently teaches an intercollegiate Philosophy of Religion course for the University of London MA Philosophy, and also teaches Interpreting Religious Language, and conducts the seminars and tutorials for Philosophy, Religion and Ethics students.

Publications

Her publications include:

• 'Michael Martin on Divine Omniscience', Think
  Think (journal)
  Think is an academic journal created to forge a direct link between contemporary philosophy and the general public. The central aim of the journal is to provide easily accessible and engaging writing by philosophers pre-eminent in their fields to a wide audience, unimpeded by academic jargon and...
  
   10 (Summer 2005).
• 'Religion Without 'Superstition'? A Realist View', Dialogue 24 (April 2005).
• ‘Transforming Metaphysics? Revisioning Christianity in the Light of Analytical Philosophy’, in Faith and Analysis: A Critical Look at the Impact of Analytical Philosophy on the Philosophy of Religion eds. Harriet A. Harris and Christopher Insole (Farnborough: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2005).
• Religious Language Subject Guide (London: External Publications, University of London, 2004, second edition).
• ‘Philosophy of Religion’, in Philosophy for AS and A2, Elizabeth Burns and Stephen Law (eds) (London: Routledge, 2004).
• Review of Philosophy: Key Themes and Philosophy: Key Texts, Julian Baggini (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Think
  Think (journal)
  Think is an academic journal created to forge a direct link between contemporary philosophy and the general public. The central aim of the journal is to provide easily accessible and engaging writing by philosophers pre-eminent in their fields to a wide audience, unimpeded by academic jargon and...
  
  , Spring 2004, 103-105.
• Philosophy of Religion Subject Guide (London: External Publications, University of London, 2003, second edition).
• Buddhism Subject Guide (London: External Publications, University of London, 2002).
• The Church to AD461 Subject Guide (London: External Publications, University of London, 2000).
• ‘Iris Murdoch and the Nature of Good’, Religious Studies 33 (1997), 303-313.
• A review of The God Delusion
  The God Delusion
  The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that...