10 Facts About Eileen Barker

Eileen Barker's is the chairperson and founder of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements and has written studies about cults and new religious movements.

Eileen Barker has been involved with the LSE's sociology department, where she received her PhD, since 1970.

Eileen Barker has held numerous positions of leadership in the academic study of religion.

Eileen Barker's served as the Chairperson of the British Sociological Association's Study Group for the Sociology of Religion from 1985 to 1990, as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion from 1991 to 1993, and as President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion from 2001 to 2002.

In 2000 Barker became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and the American Academy of Religion awarded her its Martin E Marty Award for Contributions to the Public Understanding of Religion.

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Eileen Barker was a member of the editorial review board of Cultic Studies Review, an academic journal that offered peer-reviewed scholarship alongside news concerning cults and new religious movements.

Eileen Barker subsequently joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultic Studies, which superseded Cultic Studies Review in 2010.

Eileen Barker defended this by stating that it had been approved by her university and a government grants council, and saved taxpayer money.

Eileen Barker's INFORM organisation has been criticised by the Family Action Information Resource chaired by former Conservative Home Office minister and anti-cult campaigner Tom Sackville, who cut INFORM's Home Office funding in 1997.

Eileen Barker, a member of the Liberal Democrats, was an unsuccessful Queen's Park ward candidate in May 2002 and an unsuccessful Kenton ward candidate in May 2006.