Digital activism as justice-making: Evaluating decolonial public theologies...
I’m thrilled to have an academic paper accepted for GoNeDigiTal24. The conference organisors requested a short video introduction to Evaluating decolonial public theologies on Christian social media...
View Articlestashes as research methods in researching making
I’m writing!! As I planned the 2024 year, I set aside April and May to progress analysis and writing on the Ordinary Knitters research project. Since Ordinaryknitters began, I have been privileged to...
View Articletactile patterns in analysing research data
Wool is central to knitting. So I’m using wool to help me as I analyse and write up my Ordinary knitter interviews. Wool helps me focus on the tactile and material dimensions of the research. Over the...
View Articlereflective listening to knitters for change
Currently I’m writing up 45 interviews with makers who have knitted for change. Some knitted scarves to activate for climate change, others knitted angels to yarnbomb local communities or strawberries...
View ArticleUK research June and July 2024
I’m busy at the moment making plans for a June and July research sojourn in the UK, where I am juggling 3 research projects. First, I have around 6-7 weeks in Edinburgh, where I am a Visiting Research...
View Articlesea rising labyrinth and the ethics of love
Strolling Portobello Beach in Edinburgh on Sunday with a friend, we spotted a labyrinth on the sand. With the tide coming in, the shoes came off and the jeans were rolled up. One way to walk the...
View Articleconsenting to digital activism
Whoop! A first signed consent form in a research project is a moment worth celebrating. It takes hours of work to get to this stage of a project. First there is the funding application, seeking...
View ArticleIASH “Visualizing climate change activism” Work-in-progress questions
It was great to deliver an IASH Work-in-Progress presentation of my “Visualizing climate change activism” research project. I’ve been in IASH Edinburgh for about 3.5 weeks and was surprised and...
View ArticleSocrel 2024 “Digital activism as justice-making” conference questions
I was pleased to present a paper on “Digital activism as justice-making” at the British Sociology Association (BSA) Sociology of Religion Annual Conference. The theme for 2024 was Religion, Justice,...
View Articlefun day plotting the IASH Digital activism research project
It was good today to spend some time reflecting on the IASH Digital Activism as justice-making project to date. Over the last 6 weeks in Edinburgh, I have gathered a raft of research notes. I’ve...
View Article“Grassroots digital activisms” research project July 2024 update
I leave Edinburgh tomorrow. It’s been a wonderful time, of new networks of people and a peaceful setting in which to think and research. With my 7 weeks at IASH ending, I have written up a July 2024...
View ArticleCross-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...
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