I enjoy engaging with audiences beyond academia and speaking publicly about topics relating to my research and wider areas of expertise. My public engagement includes commentary and discussion on non-religious rights, humanism and freedom of religion or belief (FoRB), refugees and asylum, including contemporary debates.
I have contributed to podcasts, interviews and public events, and I welcome opportunities to share my research with wider audiences.
In Conversation with Lucy Potter & Humanists UK
Humanists UK
4 August 2026
Can You Claim Asylum for Leaving Religion? | Dr Lucy Potter on Apostasy, Humanism and UK Asylum Law
8 July 2026 · Humanism Now · Podcast
Watch on YouTube [Originally recorded in 2023 and subsequently published online]
Believe It or Not: How Do You Prove What You Don’t Believe? | Pint of Science
20 May 2026
Speaker at the Pint of Science Festival in York, delivering a public talk exploring how people seeking asylum on the basis of non-religion are expected to demonstrate that they no longer hold a religious belief. The talk explored the challenge of proving a negative and what this reveals about how law understands belief and credibility.
View the Pint of Science event page
How the UK Asylum System Is Failing the Non-Religious with Dr Lucy Potter
15 April 2026 · Freedom of Thought, Humanists International · Podcast
Watch on YouTube
Report Launch: Non-Religious (Apostasy) Asylum Claims in the UK
24 March 2026 · University of York · Public report launch
Watch on YouTube
New Report: How UK Asylum Process Fails Non-Religious Refugees with Dr Lucy Potter
22 March 2026 · Humanism Now, Episode 69 · Podcast
Listen to the episode
Equality for Non-Religious Refugees, Humanists tell UN
20 March 2024 · United Nations Human Rights Council · Oral intervention
Watch the intervention (A speedy 90-second intervention at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council - because that’s all the speaking time you get!)