 Sheldrake is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).In 2015 he was awarded the higher doctorate, Doctor of Divinity (DD), by Oxford University after formal examination of a portfolio of his published work.He is currently Senior Research Associate of the Von Hugel Institute at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in the Cambridge Theological Federation (Westcott House) and Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality at the graduate Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio Texas.