Meet the Faith and Fertility Research Team 

Dr. Heather Prior

Heather joined King’s in 2000 and is a specialist in ocular genetics and zebrafish culture. She received her both her B. Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. Her research interests include investigating the genetic aspects of vertebrate development in zebrafish, how faith and decisions about infertility intersect, and a project on honeybee disease supported by the Alberta Beekeepers Association.

Dr. Heather Looy

Dr. Looy’s research interests relate to two basic elements of human experience: sex and food.  Specifically, she studies the biopsychology of human sexuality and gender as well as attitudes toward insects as human food. These topics are linked by her interest in emotions (especially disgust) and moral judgment. She is also interested in the role of faith in people’s decisions about reproductive technology, and in broader questions of embodiment, the biologizing of human nature, human-nature relationships, and science-religion dialogue.

Her research includes both quantitative and qualitative empirical methods, reviews, theory, and integration. She is especially passionate about finding ways to help people understand the value and the limits of biopsychological research for dealing justly with real-life issues of reproductive technology, creation care, gender, sexuality, and nutrition.