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T&RS - Staff Research Profiles & Recent Publications

Professor Pauline Kollontai

Professor Pauline Kollontai - E:p.kollontai@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Messianic Judaism, religion and identity, religion, peace and reconciliation.

Professor Sebastian Kim

Professor Sebastian Kim - E:s.kim@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Public theology, world Christianity, theology of mission, community and identity, contextual theologies, religion in contemporary society.

Richard Noake

Richard Noake - E:r.noake@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Sikh Diaspora in the UK; Pedagogy in Theology and Religious Studies; Church and Religious Foundation
Schooling and Education.

Dr Adrian Brockett

Dr Adrian Brockett - E: a.brockett@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Attitudes of adolescents towards Islam and Muslims, sometimes called ‘Islamophobia’, with a view to establishing reliable measures to gauge whether these attitudes are getting better or worse, Islam in the West in general, Qur’an and hadith studies, Shii thought, Arabic dialects.

Ann Christie

Dr Ann Christie - E:a.christie@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Ordinary theology’, understood as the theology and theologising of Christians who have received little or no theological education of a scholarly, academic or systematic kind.

Alice Collett

Dr Alice Collett - E:a.collett@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Buddhism and gender, Buddhist texts in Sanskrit and Pali, study of the Sanskrit language, orientalism and colonial encounters with Asian religions, early Indian Buddhism.

Lynn Comer, staff, staff member, Faculty of Education & Theology, Theology & Ministry

Lynn Comer - E:l.comer@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The Old Testament, practical Ministry and placement based learning, practical theology focusing on continuing ministerial education.

Stephen Friend, staff, member of staff, Faculty of Education & Theology, Theology & Religious Studies

Dr Stephen Friend - E:s.friend@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Church and communities, popular religion, identity and religion, maritime communities.

Greg Hoyland, staff, member of staff, Faculty of Education & Theology

Greg Hoyland - E:g.hoyland@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Contemporary Christianity, particularly the Anglican tradition and the role of institutional religion in a ‘non-institutional age’.

Chris Maunder

Dr Chris Maunder - E: c.maunder@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Mariology and the cult of Mary.

Dr Esther McIntosh

Dr Esther McIntosh - E:e.mcintosh@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Public theology, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, ethics and gender studies.

Imelda O'Grady, staff, staff member, Faculty of Education & Theology, Theology & Religious Studies

Imelda O'Grady - E:I.OGrady@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Religious Education in the secondary school sector, spirituality and teenage literature.

Louise Redshaw, Theology & Religious Studies

Louise Redshaw - E:l.redshaw@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Religious Education, adult Theological Education, Foundation Degrees, Quality Assurance.

Gill Simpson, staff, member of staff, Faculty of Education & Theology, Theology & Religious Studies, Catholic Certificate

Gill Simpson - E:g.simpson@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

The theology of Dorothee Soelle,  Anglican ecclesiology in a postmodern context (specifically Church of England), Christian spirituality in postmodernity

Andrew Village, member of staff

Dr Andy Village - E:a.village@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Attitudes towards mission; Clergy and the bible, Creationism, Education, values and religion, Prejudice and personality, Religion and social solidarity, Psychological type and religion.

John Williams

Revd Dr John Williams - E:j.williams@yorksj.ac.uk 

Research interests

Emerging patterns of ministry and mission in local churches in response to particular understandings of social and cultural change; the relationship between evolving shapes of church life (e.g. Fresh Expressions) and underlying patterns of religious believing; models of theological education for ministry with special reference to the growth in the use of HE validated academic programmes for lay ministerial training.

Sue Yore, Theology & Religious Studies

Dr Susan Yore - E:s.yore@yorksj.ac.uk

Research interests

Women, spirituality and literature, development of creativity in the Theology & Religious Studies curriculum in Higher Education.