“Because parapsychology is concerned with experiences that appear to contradict our usual understanding of how the physical world works, they are not prioritised for funding from mainstream sources. Yet they promise to reveal something fundamental about what it is to be a human being. We are immensely grateful to the Bial Foundation for their courage and intrepidity in rejecting the herd mentality and very publicly supporting this important work.”
Chris Roe has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit during his PhD studies of cold reading as an explanation for mediumship demonstrations. In 1995 he joined the University of Northampton and went on to establish a research group at that is now one of the largest centres world-wide for work in parapsychology. He was awarded a Professorship in Psychology in 2012.
He has served as President of the Parapsychological Association and of the Society for Psychical Research, and as Chair of the British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section. His research interests are around the phenomenology of paranormal experience, particularly as it affects wellbeing, the psychology of paranormal belief and of deception, as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors.
Recent research has been concerned with the relationship between altered states of consciousness and psychic experience. He has published over 125 journal papers and book chapters and given over 200 conference presentations.
