Current Postgraduate Research Students

Theology and Religious Studies boasts the largest research student community in the University; topics range from the spirituality of anorexia to the ethics of organ donation

Adrian Agachi

The neo-patristic synthesis of Father Dumitru Staniloae
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

David Ball

The legends of Glastonbury: eternal truths and historical facts
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Elizabeth Baxter

Towards a feminist, liberative, Christological approach to therapeutic community
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Elaine Bellchambers

Liberation theology for children and the impact for education
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Sabine Bohnacker-Bruce

Church of England ministers’ beliefs about other faiths
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Rohan Brown

‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’: complicating Walter’s Death Typology using poetry as a medium of personal expressionism
Supervisor: Dr Tina Welch

Ciprian Burca

The Holy Trinity - source of Church unity in the creative theological vision of Father Dumitru Staniloae
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Philip Chapman

Soul and Salvation in Karl Barth and the Late Modern Self as delineated by Darwinian biology
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer 

Tom Clammer

Does the Church of England present a coherent theology of the Devil and the demonic through its liturgical formulae?
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer 

Megan Clay

Dancing in the cosmos: towards liberating theological models for children’s spirituality and sexuality
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Theolyn Cortens

Exploring New Age-based angel meditation, therapy and healing: its historical development and its effect on the lives of British women
Supervisor: Dr Tina Welch

Rouhi Downing

A contemporary perspective of the icon of 'The Holy face of Manoppello'
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Jenny Farwell

The reception of icons in the Anglican world
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Robert Farwell

Mural painting in Ethiopian churches from 1650
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Barry Fry

The meaning of life, the search for a saviour, and the quest for eternal life: theological reflections on life, death, immortality and the human condition portrayed in the feature films of Monty Python
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart

Thalia Gur Klein

Jewish holy women and martyrs
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

John Hadjinicolaou

Marriage in the Orthodox Christian tradition
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Reuben Harper

Ontology and morality in the thought of Maximus the Confessor and Emmanuel Kant
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Mahrokh Hosseini

The post-revolutionary Iranian women's identity as expressed through dress codes
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Josephine Kiddle

Human uniqueness: twentieth-century perspectives from theology, science and archaeology
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart

Kameliya Konstantinova

The light in the icon
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Richard Lindley

Changing patterns of belief in God in the United Kingdom since World War II
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart

Kathleen Lyons

Mysticism or Narcissism?
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Richard Palmer

The rise and fall of the Old Catholic Church in Britain
Supervisor: Prof. Liz Stuart

Conn Mac Gabhann

Irish liberation theology
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood 

Christine Nellist

Ancient voices in modern theology: Orthodox teaching and practice in animal welfare
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Chris Newell

‘Our wounds are not for healing': a theology of incarnation from within ‘disabled’ minds.
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Barry Osborne

A critical examination of how the task of Evangelisation is understood and practiced in rural Britain
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer

Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Disability and chronic illness in Greek Orthodox society
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Kathryn Pritchard

Bioethics, public policy and the Church of England
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer

Lampros Psomas

Eastern Orthodoxy and nationalism
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Patrick-John Ramsey

The place of St Peter in ecclesiastical hierarchy: an ecclesiological model inspired by Dionysios the Areopagite
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Yafiah Randall

Remembering Al-Andalus: A Sūfī approach to Self and Other and its contribution to conflict transformation in Israel-Palestine
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Stephanie Robertson

The ethics of solid organ donation and transplantation – an alternative view based on Christian and Hindu traditions.
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Dimitrios Salapatas

The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
Supervisor: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos

Romila Santosh

The current practice of Ayurveda in the UK, with a specific focus on the role of spirituality; patient and practitioner perspectives
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Evlynn Sharp

Perceptions of being, language of unity
Supervisor: Dr Anna King 

Abbey Smith

Ground of being: an outline of the systematic theology of Paul Tillich and an assessment of its adequacy in relation to animals and creation
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Messer

Linda Thompson

Ayurveda, meditation and healing in the West since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1959 to the present day: Ayurveda, meditation and lifestyle, ancient wisdom for a modern new world
Supervisor: Dr Anna King

Sylvia Thorpe

Identity, spirituality and salvation: contemporary Cornwall and a theology of liberation
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

David Welbourn

Towards a Christological model of organisational leadership
Supervisor: Dr Paul Hedges

Emma White

The spirituality of anorexia: towards healing and liberation of the Goddess in every woman
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Hannah Winter

Beyond body boundaries: discovering the Divine in the depths of the flesh
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood

Alan Young

The insistence of the Divine, pluralistic spiritualities amid religious persecutions
Supervisor: Prof. Lisa Isherwood