Cross-training and research capacity
I’ve been privileged to spend the last two weeks at the University of Birmingham, participating in the Psychology Cross-training Fellowship Programme for Theologians. The fields of psychology and...
View Articleknitting is gendered
With Tom Daley knitting at the Paris Olympics, 3 years on from his knitting at the Tokyo Olympics, there is a fascinating article in The Conversation: Knitting helps Tom Daley switch off. Its mental...
View ArticleOrdinary Time Festivals: An Application of Wisdom Ecclesiology published in...
I’m delighted with news of a journal article published with Theology Today, a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal connected to Princeton Theological Seminary. Steve Taylor, “Ordinary Time Festivals: An...
View ArticleKnitting as public theological witness
Researching Ordinary Knitters – people who knit for Christian projects in public spaces – has been a research side project for me since August 2021. This paper, if accepted, will be the first public...
View ArticleReading Allowed and aloud: Cultivating listening structures in a literary city
Paper acceptance! I’m thrilled to have a paper accepted for Books and the city: the 2024 Otago Centre for the Book Annual Symposium (21-22 November, 2024). The symposium is local, so that’s always a...
View ArticleVisualising online climate change activism: public eco-theologies in...
I’m delighted to have news overnight of a journal article about my research into grassroots digital activism accepted for publication with Theology (UK based journal). The article is scheduled for...
View Articlethe fun of research coding Ordinary knitters
Today was fun. Today was a research coding day. Today was out with the coloured highlighters and A3 sheets of paper, seeking threads and weave in focus group interviews in the Ordinaryknitters project....
View Articlelistening as community building in public spaces
It was great to begin a research side project yesterday and sit at a public community event doing some ethnography. The side project is researching the science of listening and social connection,...
View ArticleReverse migration: insights from an 18th-century journey from the Pacific to...
I’m delighted to have a chapter proposal accepted for a planned Migration and Religion in Australia and the Pacific volume with Springer Nature, edited by Rev. Dr. Titus S. Olorunnisola, Interim...
View ArticleThe Social Impacts of Listening Practices in Religious Organisations
The Social Impacts of Listening Practices in Religious Organisations: A pilot study* This project applies research related to the science of listening to analyse how religious practices might...
View ArticleGrassroots and indigenous digital faith-based activism colloquium call for...
A research project I am currently working on …. Call for papers: Grassroots and indigenous digital faith-based activism colloquium 4 April, 2025. Hybrid, alongside a face-to-face gathering at the...
View ArticleKnitting as public theological witness: spoken presentation feedback
For the last three years, I have been interviewing people who knit for Christian projects in public spaces. To date I’ve conducted 50 interviews with knitters, coded all the transcripts and done...
View Articlesocial impact of religious practices: pilots and letter boxes
I’m researching the social impact of selected religious practices. The 12 month research project is funded by John Templeton, located in the University of Birmingham and administered through the...
View ArticleMaking and Christian witness in Australia today: journal article acceptance
Thrilled. Delighted. Stoked. I’ve just had news of journal article acceptance by Colloquium, an international peer-reviewed journal, for an article titled: “Making and Christian witness in Australia...
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