Humanities Staff

Dr David Webster
BA (Hons) - Sunderland, MLitt - Newcastle upon Tyne, PhD - Sunderland.Dr David Webster

Position
Course Leader, Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

Contact
Email: dwebster@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 714690

David is a Senior Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics - and is co-ordinating the RPE programme as it is launched. He joined the University in 2000, after working at Sunderland University and for the Open University.

His main research interests are in Buddhist Studies, the Philosophy of Desire, and Issues of Ageing, Sickness and Death in Philosophy and Religion.

He has written a number of articles, and his first book The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon was published in January 2005 by Routledge Curzon.