MPhil/PhD students

As a student in the United States, distance learning at Chester offered me a viable option to continue my research in theology. I am able to learn in a nurturing and supportive environment.

My research interests are in religion, spirituality, recovery from addiction, and qualitative research methods. I have undertaken ethnographic fieldwork on the UK Recovery Walks and within the Visible Recovery Advocacy Movement, and have presented at conferences including the British Sociological Association, the British Association for the Study of Religion, and the Faces and Voices of Recovery Annual Conference.

My research examines the portrayal of religion in contemporary science fiction literature, with a focus on how science fiction reflects and reinforces various understandings of the category of religion.   

I am a priest in the diocese of Guildford and tutor on a Church of England training course for lay and ordained ministers. My research explores how women priests’ maternal guilt and suffering can be transformed through discovering its potential to imitate Christ.

My current research is concerned with the defintion of religion debate and the applicability of Buddhist philosophy – in particular Nāgārjuna’s philosophy of emptiness – to this area. 

My interests concern the ethics of non-human life, including non-/human relationships. My research specifically concerns the cry of the animal in Laudato Si’; how this affects human food choice; and how the cry of the animal correlates with the cries of the poor and the earth. I am the recipient of the Sustainable Futures and CreatureKind Studentship for 2021-24.

I am a Minister of the United Reformed Church, serving congregations in Highgate and New Barnet, North London.

I am conducting research on Cruciformity in C.S. Lewis’ Narrative Spiritual Theology

 A part-time PhD student and  sci-fi enthusiast, I have interests in process studies, process theology, post/human and transhuman studies, futures studies and the philosophy of technology.

I came to Chester after completing my BA and MA degrees in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. Over these four years, I gradually developed a keen interest in understanding the place of animals in the biblical tradition. This deepening concern for biblical animals motivated me to undertake a PhD at the Theology and Religious Studies department in Chester in January 2014. Since 2016, I have also been a Visiting Lecturer at the department where I have taught Biblical Hebrew and other Biblical Studies modules.

I am a Christian Minister supporting Churches and Charities under the auspices of the Evangelical Alliance in Wales.