ST AUGUSTINE'S - Key Persons
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- Core Staff Member
- Principal
- St Augustine 's Principal
- Subject Lead
St Augustine's Principal, Revd Dr Alan Gregory speaks to prospective students and ordinands about distinctive our approach to learning, community, and formation.
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- Core Staff Member
- Academic Registrar
Annie Wanjohi Studied: BA (Hons) in Theology, Ministry, and Mission (Mixed Mode) When Ordinand Annie Wanjohi began to feel a call to ministry, she felt conflicted. Despite her academic [...]
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- Associate
- Doctrine Ethics
Anthony is the Associate Vicar at Tonbridge Parish Church and was previously a Curate in Gravesend. Since ordination he has been involved in lay ministry training in Rochester Diocese. Before his ordination, he worked as an economist in the Civil Service, most recently at H. M. Treasury.
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- Tutor in Christian Spirituality
Barnabas's PhD awarded in 2014 from Oxford University concerned the work of North American Roman Catholic theologian, David Tracy (bn 1939). He is currently co-editing a book of essays about Tracy's work, Beyond The Analogical Imagination: The Theological Vision of David Tracy (CUP, hopefully 2022). From 2012-19, Barnabas helped lead the MA in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College, specialising in modern and philosophical approaches as well as with a gathering interest in pre-modern Christian spirituality and theology. He has been a teacher at St Augustine's on and off since perhaps 2017, at MA and BA level. As of March 2022, his main paid employment has been for a couple of years as a Social Prescriber in NHS Primary Care. He is looking forward to returning more fully to academic research and teaching.
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- Core Staff Member
- Head of Operations
Sarah came to study with us as part of her ordination training through the Chichester Diocese; she graduated in 2015. "My journey to ordination training was one that began with a suggestion from my Rector [...]
Sarah is a former student at St Augustine's, and was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 2016. We asked her to tell us a bit about her experience as a Lutheran student at St Augustine's, [...]
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Theology & Science
After an initial BSc in Microbiology, I came to realise that my main interests lie not only in the scientific categorisation and manipulation of phenomena, but also in asking ontological questions concerning those phenomena. As a result, I undertook a BA in Theology as a second degree. In the dissertation for the BA in Theology, I attempted a definition of Homo sapiens that wove together scientific, philosophical and theological understandings of what being human consists in. Following on from this, in my dissertation for an MSc in Epistemology, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Edinburgh, I asserted that a common mechanism undergirds human memory and prediction: both being constructive in nature.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Sacramental Theology, Ecclesiology, Medical Science and Theology
I read theology first at St Mellitus College, and then transferred to St Augustine's, where I completed an MA as part of my formation for ordained ministry in the Church of England. I am currently a priest and assistant curate at St John the Divine, Kennington in the Diocese of Southwark, whilst also holding permission to officiate in Ely Diocese. I am currently completing study on the Second Vatican Council at Domuni Universitas, Toulouse. I sit on the Board of Affirming Catholicism.
My master's thesis focused on ‘total pain', a concept developed by Dame Cicely Saunders, one of the founders of the hospice movement, bringing this into conversation with the theological doctrine of the communion of saints - an expanded version of this work is due out as a book with SCM Press this year. My wider theological interests include sacramental practice, ecclesiology and ecumenism, contemporary debates on sexuality and gender, and the interface of science, medicine and theology. I am currently completing a manuscript on the concept of unity in Anglican polity, and am also working on a further piece of queer theology.
I read medicine to doctoral level at Queens' College, Cambridge, and I continue to practice as an academic psychiatrist at King's College London and the Maudsley, as well as being the John Marks Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Medicine at Girton College, Cambridge. My academic interests in psychiatry relate to patients with antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy, trying to elucidate possible biological mechanisms that might lead to stratification and treatment in the future. An area of crossover interest between theology and psychiatry for me is the concept of culpability - both in a legal and moral sense - and what this tells us about human flourishing and the living of the Christian life.
At St Augustine's I have lead sessions for ordinands on mental health and theology. I review regularly for Theology journal.
Charlotte Sleigh is a scholar and practitioner in the science humanities, always curious about the connections that science makes with history, literature, art and - increasingly - theology. She has taught at the universities of Cambridge, UCLA, Kent and UCL, where she is presently a professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She is a former president of the British Society for the History of Science and current research consultant to the ECLAS project (Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science).
Charlotte studied at St Augustine's during the years of Zoom, was ordained in 2022, and is now a self-supporting curate in the parish of St Martin and St Paul, Canterbury. She is often preoccupied by the question of how we can live well in this time of ecological catastrophe, a topic that brings together both science and theology.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Teaching Fellow
- Principal of the College of the Resurrection
Christopher Irvine is a former Principal of the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and is currently Canon Librarian and Director of Education at Canterbury Cathedral. He serves on the Church of England's Liturgical Commission, is Chair of the Alcuin Club, and a trustee of Art and Christianity Enquiry. He has a particular interest in the relationship between liturgy and art, and in sacred space.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Addiction and Pastoral Care
Claire studied for her BA in theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and enjoyed the lively theology faculty and the life of an ordination college. After graduating she spent some time at home with her four boys before returning to theology. She began her MA in theology at St Augustine's in 2017 and then her PhD in 2020.
Her research interests are motherhood and spirituality, feminist theology, embodied spirituality, the practices of charismatic churches (in particular Newfrontiers) and the Benedictine tradition. The provisional title of her doctoral dissertation is ‘The faith lives and practices of women in a Newfrontiers congregation'.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Pastoral Care, Practical Theology
Clare served as the Tutor for Practical Theology and Pastoral Care from 2013 until 2019.
Clare has a Masters Degree in Pastoral Theology from Edinburgh University and has recently completed a doctorate in the hermeneutics of Practical Theology with Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Theology Federation.
A former childcare social worker, Clare was pastoral care advisor in the Diocese of London before becoming the Rector of St Anne's Soho.
Daphne Clifton is an Executive Coach, Associate Speaker for the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and former student of St Augustine's, ordained in 2017. She has been on the Board of Trustees for St Augustine's [...]
Job Titles:
- Core Staff Member
- Tutor for Lay Education, Practical Theology, and Old Testament
The Rev. Dr. Jenny Corcoran is the Tutor for Lay Education, Practical Theology, and Old Testament. Before St Augustine's, Jenny was the Chaplain to the Bishop of Dover in the Diocese of Canterbury and Local Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. She grew up in Bristol, England, and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and English Literature from the University of Lancaster. She worked as a youth and children's minister at a large evangelical church near London before studying for ordination at St John's, Nottingham and gaining her Masters in Mission and Ministry there.
Jenny completed her Ph.D. in Old Testament Studies and Practical Theology at the University of Nottingham. The title of her dissertation is ‘A reading of Deuteronomy as a model of continuity, adaptation and innovation for contemporary discussions of Anglican liturgy'. While working on her thesis, she served as the minister at St Barnabas, Lenton Abbey in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham and then as Chaplain and lecturer in Practical Theology at St. John's, before becoming Director of Distance Learning at the College. Jenny is married to Dan, who is also a priest in the Church of England, and they have two young children.
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- Core Staff Member
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- Priest in Charge of St Christopher
The Revd Ellen Eames is Priest in Charge of St Christopher's, Walworth, in the Diocese of Southwark. She trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge, where she studied Theology at Corpus Christi College and as an exchange student at Yale Divinity School. She served her curacy in Scunthorpe in the Diocese of Lincoln, before becoming Chaplain at Saint Gabriel's College, a Church of England comprehensive school in Camberwell, Diocese of Southwark. She has been an active leader in community organising with Citizens UK, through which she has been exploring the relationship between preaching and politics. She has a passion for homiletics (the art of preaching) and helping others to develop their preaching ministry.
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- Assistant Curate in Chichester Diocese
‘We are becoming a very different sort of Church. And that's our challenge right now, to become a different sort of Church. A challenge I feel equipped to face because I trained at St Augustine's,
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- Core Staff Member
- Chaplain and Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Historical Theology
Harriet was appointed part-time Chaplain at St Augustine's in 2020. Harriet spent over 20 years working for the Foreign Office, in a mixture of jobs in London and overseas, including 4 years in Beijing and 6 in the Falkland Islands. When she took voluntary redundancy she knew then the time was right to test her vocation to ministry and her rector sent her to see the DDO who suggested Harriet study a module at St Augustine's. Harriet then signed on as a full-time independent student whilst going through discernment. Harriet is someone for students (and staff) to talk to who isn't part of their assessment process and is independent of their course. It means that they can talk to her, in confidence, about anything that's troubling them - whether they are struggling with study or personal issues, having doubts about their calling or are worried about anything at all. It's important for our students to know that their concerns can be shared.
Hear Harriet talking about her role as the College's Chaplain.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Ecumenism, Ecclesiology, Psalms
- Team Rector of Ashford Town Parish
Jeremy is currently the Team Rector of Ashford Town Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. He previously served as the Church of England's Secretary for Ecumenical Relations and Theology, where his responsibilities included participation in national ecumenical dialogues and support for the work of the Faith and Order Commission. Before that, he was a member of staff and then Principal at the South East Institute for Theological Education, where he taught courses on a range of subjects including spirituality and formation.
Having studied for undergraduate and Master's degrees at the University of Cambridge, he gained his doctorate at the University of Toronto's Center for Medieval Studies, with a focus on Latin meditational literature from the twelfth century. His current research interests include ecumenism, ecclesiology, and the Psalms in Christian spirituality.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Art and Worship, Practical Theology
Jon is the Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Vocations Officer for the Diocese of Canterbury. He seeks to help current and future church leaders engage with the cultures in which they are ministering, using innovative research methods to recognize and respond to where God is at work.
Jon's Grove Booklet, Thriving in Curacy, is the result of his own research among curates who had negative experiences of the training relationship. Using his resulting taxonomy of ‘fatal mistakes', Jon seeks to equip Training Incumbents and Dioceses to recognises problems before they happen and build relational structures that offer real support to both Curate and Training Incumbent.
During the spring and summer of 2020, Jon conducted a number of online research projects exploring the experience and theology of lockdown with church members and leaders in the Diocese of Exeter. The data from this research has helped local and diocesan leaders to develop theological responses to some of the biggest questions raised by the pandemic and to face some of the practical challenges of lockdown with faithful decision making and practice. Before lockdown he developed diocesan-wide research projects using photo-elicitation and photo-voice to help churches develop their vision and engage with their local community.
Jon was ordained in the Diocese of Exeter in 2006 and was based in Plymouth (Britain's Ocean City) as a Curate, Vicar and then as Diocesan Mission Community Development Team Leader.
Jordan Dyck began teaching New Testament Greek at St Augustine's College in 2022, and currently teaches Biblical and Classical languages in various settings, including at London City Lit and through his webpage, www.learnnewtestamentgreek.com. He also lectures philosophy at Staffordshire University, and has previously lectured theology at Oasis College Waterloo.
He studied theology and biblical studies at Mattersey Hall Bible College (University of Wales) and Durham University, before doing a PhD in philosophy at Staffordshire University with a thesis on Jacques Lacan and St Paul. His research interests focus on the intersections of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy and biblical studies.
Jordan has also had a career in end of life, dementia and spiritual care, including as director of an end of life care improvement programme at a nursing home, spiritual care director, and various roles with Alzheimer's Society. He is vice chair of the board of directors at the Metropolitan Community Church of North London, and is slowly pursuing ordination with that denomination. There he also led a research project on the issues facing LGBT African asylum seekers to the UK, with a focus on how faith interacts with the asylum seeking process. He lives in deepest South London, and enjoys board games and jazz in his spare time.
Job Titles:
- Tutor in Christian Doctrine
Before ordination, Joshua worked in the City until he became a Christian; then he was an aid worker and later a civil servant. He was ordained in 2012 and served as a curate in Streatham and then Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark. He is now Vicar of Holy Trinity Roehampton. He has a first degree in Philosophy and his training for ordination included a BA and MSt in Theology and Christian Doctrine, specialising in the thought of Karl Barth. He is the author of War and Religion, a Very Short introduction (OUP) and has contributed several conference papers and book chapters.
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - Environmental Theology
After graduating from Cambridge University with a Triple First in Philosophy, Laura spent a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, before returning to Cambridge for her PhD. During this time, she discerned a call to ministry, and began training for ministry at Westcott House alongside a Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Queens' College. Laura then took up a lectureship in Philosophy at the University of Kent, and completed her ordination training at St Augustine's.
Ordination and a family move to Oxford led to a change of direction, and Laura now works in full-time parish ministry, currently as Vicar of Holy Trinity Headington Quarry. She is delighted to be returning to St Augustine's as a Research Fellow as she resumes her academic studies and embarks on a Lambeth Research Degree in Theology, working with Guido de Graaff. Her research will develop an aesthetic approach to environmental theology, focusing on the connection between the aesthetic value of the natural world and the moral responsibility to care for and preserve it.
Laura's website is here.
Job Titles:
- Core Staff Member
- Librarian ( Southwark )
Lorraine was the rector of a rural benefice of nine churches for ten years and before that worked for ten years as a science teacher specializing in physics.
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- Core Staff Member
- Director of Studies & Tutor for Christian Doctrine and Ethics
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
- Member of the Society for the Study of Theology
Guido is member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK). Guido is also a member of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK); the Society of Christian Ethics (USA) and the American Academy of Religion (USA).
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- Research Fellow - Worship, Liturgy and Music
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- Coordinator and Tutor for IME Phase 2 ( Chichester Diocese )
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- Christian Education and Spiritual Development
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- Research Fellow - Canon Law
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- Core Staff Member
- Senior Tutor and Tutor for Biblical Studies
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- Core Staff Member
- Tutor for Writing, Study Skills and Singing
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- Vicar at Christ Church Gipsy Hill in London
The Revd Jonathan Croucher is Vicar at Christ Church Gipsy Hill in London, and Area Dean of Lambeth South in the Diocese of Southwark. He has been on the Board of Trustees for St Augustine's [...]