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Dr Stephen Friend

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

T: 01904 876861

E: s.friend@yorksj.ac.uk

 

Dr Stephen Friend attained his PhD in August 2010 from Hull University under the title: ‘A sense of Belonging: Religion and Identity in Yorkshire Fishing Communities, c.1815-1914. He holds the post of Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses, focussing mainly on religion and the social sciences.    His research interests embrace Maritime Missions; Popular Religion; and Religion, Art and Culture.  He was the Director of an oral history project (Women’s Voices Project) during the period 2005-2008 during which period over fifty video-recorded interviews were undertaken, exhibitions developed, lectures given, workshops run and conferences led on this topic.  He was also responsible for developing a DVD based on some of the interviews, and he involved a number of staff and students in various aspects of the research. 

 

Professional Membership and Associations

International Association for the Study of Maritime Mission

Royal National Institute for the Deaf

Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society

 

Recent Publications

‘The Role of Research in Maritime Mission’ (in r. Kverndal, The Way of the Sea, Wm Carey Library, Pasadena, 2008: 304-407).

 ‘Identity and Religion in Yorkshire Fishing Communities’ (in S. C. H. Kim & P. Kollontai, Community Identity, T&T Clark, London, 2007:203-227).

‘Women’s Voices’: a DVD arising out of the ‘Women’s Voices’ oral history project (2007).

‘The Development of Muscular Christianity in Victorian Britain and Beyond’.  Nick J. Watson, Stuart Weir and Stephen Friend, Journal of Religion and Society, Vol. 7, 2005.

‘E J Mather, founder of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen’ (Article for the New Dictionary of National Biography, 2004).

The Role of Research and Study in Maritime Mission, Maritime Mission Studies Supplement, Spring 2004.

‘The Scottish Coast Missions’ (IASMM Newsletter, No. 21, Spring/Summer, 2002, pp. 4-6). 

 

Conferences and Workshops

Conference Papers

Women in Yorkshire Fishing Communities (Whitby Literary and Philosophical society & the Yorkshire Archaeological Society join Day School, Saturday 5 March 2011). 

Women’s Voices Project at Filey Junior School (Day workshop with the children) 2008.

Women in Fishing communities (International Association for the Study of Maritime mission, bi-annual conference, Casa Del Mar, Barcelona, 2-5 May 2007).

Women’s Voices Project in Yorkshire (paper given at ‘The Travels and Travails of Scots Herring Girls’ conference,  Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Skye, Scotland, 22-24 Sept 2006). 

Women’s Voices, Women’s Stories: Women in Fishing Communities Exploring the Ethics and Politics of Personal Narrative, at York St John University. Paper given on the topic: (12 Nov 2005)

The Role of Research and Study in Maritime Missions (Paper given at IASMM Conference on the Future of Maritime Missions, New Ross, Ireland, 17-19 July 2002)