Biography:
Susie is Departmental Lecturer in Applied Theology. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (MA) and the University of Birmingham (BATS, PhD), and has previously taught at Emory University, Episcopal Divinity School and the University of Texas at Austin. More recently, she was Academic Dean at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Director of Research at Sarum College in Salisbury. Her research has focused on practical theology, immigration and refugees, as well as on the intersections between social justice, spirituality and the arts. Her publications include Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church (Ashgate, 2012) and Parenting for a Better World: Social Justice Practices for your Family and the Planet (Chalice, 2022). She is currently undertaking a collaborative and creative qualitative project exploring experiences, understandings and practices of hope, funded by the Susanna Wesley Foundation.
Susie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/Advance HE, and a member of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics and British and Irish Association for Practical Theology. She is also academic coordinator for the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network Conference in Durham, and on the editorial board of Studies in Christian Ethics.
Research Areas:
Practical Theology; Christian Ethics
Research Interests:
Christian social ethics; practical theology and qualitative methodologies; social justice, arts and spiritually; migration, refuges and theology; ethics of hope; parenting and social justice; environmental theology
Links:
https://susannawesleyfoundation.org/who-we-are/
