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Dr Bankole Falade is a Research Fellow with the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University.

He is also Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

A Social Psychologist, his work at CREST focuses on the interactions between science and religion; perceptions of health and disease in South Africa; public trust, interest, engagement with and attitudes to science; computerised media mapping for science news and social research methods.

Prior to CREST, he was a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany.