Linda Jane Pauline Woodhead MBE FBA FRSE (born 15 February 1964)[1] is a British sociologist of religion and scholar of religious studies at King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

[3] Since 2022, Woodhead has been the FD Maurice Professor and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies[4] at King's College London.

[1] She attended Bishop Fox's comprehensive school and Richard Huish Sixth Form College in Taunton.

They bring researchers into conversation with prominent figures in public life and have included former Prime Minister Tony Blair, ethologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

The debates have been covered by BBC Radio, LBC, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, the Evening Standard and other UK and international media.

In Religion and Change in Modern Britain[17] (ISBN 9780415575812) (co-edited with Rebecca Catto, Routledge 2012) and Everyday Lived Islam in Europe (co-edited with Nadia Jeldtoft et al., Ashgate 2013) Woodhead expanded this approach by showing how new 'post-confessional' ways of being religious have eclipsed a traditional 'Reformation style' of religion in Britain and more widely since the late 1980s.

Woodhead is a regular feature and comment writer on religion for The Tablet magazine[19] and The Guardian[20] and The Observer newspapers.