David is Chair of Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. His current research concerns the place of non-human animals in Christian doctrine and ethics. He is President of the Society for the Study of Theology and a past president of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. He is co-founder of CreatureKind and is Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project on the Christian ethics of farmed animal welfare in partnership with UK churches and Compassion in World Farming.