Luke Donnellan is Director of Understanding Humanism at Humanists UK, a philosophy graduate and former primary school teacher.
Luke Donnellan
As Director of Understanding Humanism at Humanists UK, Luke leads the charity’s education work, including its school speakers programme, teacher CPD, and the production of education resources. He is also a board member of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales. Earlier in his career, Luke was a primary school teacher, and worked for over a decade in media production, producing TV documentaries and factual entertainment series.
He studied philosophy as part of his degree and has retained a passion for the subject ever since. He trained as a philosophy teacher with the Philosophy Foundation and delivered regular P4C sessions while working as a primary school teacher. Whenever he can, he enjoys dropping philosophical questions into dinner table conversations with his own children.




