Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Practical Philosophy, Theology, and Religion. She is President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion, and has directed several funded projects on the topics of love, desire, religious understanding, and naturalism.

Her research interests are in philosophy of religion (broadly construed), the relation between philosophy and theology, philosophical idealism, naturalism, the philosophy of love and desire, and the meaning of life. Her latest research project was The Quest for God: Towards a Theology of Desire which she directed with co-directors Clare Carlisle and John Cottingham. It was funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. Most recently she was a member of the REF sub-panel for Theology and Religious Studies. She is currently working on a monograph entitled The End of Desire: Meaning, Nihilism, and God.