Meet the new staff in our team 2024 New Staff Layout section Professor Gordon LynchProfessor Gordon Lynch has been appointed as Professor of Religion, Society and Ethics. Professor Gordon Lynch Layout section Dr J. Thomas HewittDr J. Thomas Hewitt has been appointed as Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins. Dr J. Thomas Hewitt Layout section Dr Selina StoneDr Selina Stone has been appointed as Lecturer in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics. Dr Selina Stone Layout section Dr Lois McFarlandDr Lois McFarland has been appointed as Lecturer in Religion and Literature. Dr Lois McFarland Layout section Dr Shoaib Ahmed MalikDr Shoaib Ahmed Malik has been appointed as Lecturer in Science and Religion. Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik Layout section Dr Upali SramanDr Upali Sraman has been appointed Lecturer in Buddhist Languages. Dr Upali Sraman 2023 New Staff Layout section Dr Pedro FeitozaDr Pedro Feitoza is Lecturer in Latin American Christianity. He joins having completed a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning in in São Paolo. Dr Pedro Feitoza Layout section Dr Alysa GhoseDr Alysa Ghose is Lecturer in Religion and Decolonisation. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh (PhD 2019), she formerly held lectureships in the anthropology of race and decoloniality at the University of Edinburgh, and in social anthropology at the University of Manchester. Dr Alysa Ghose Layout section Dr Felicity LoughlinDr Felicity Loughlin is Lecturer in the History of Modern Christianity. An Edinburgh graduate (MA Hons 2012, MTh 2013, PhD 2018), she was formerly a Research Fellow in St Andrews, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Edinburgh. Dr Felicity Loughlin Layout section Dr Peter AtkinsDr Peter Atkins is Teaching Fellow in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible. He is a graduate of the Universities of Sheffield and Chester. Layout section Dr Sneha RoyDr Sneha Roy is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Her postdoctoral research deals with women’s participation in the Hindu-right in the borderland between India and Bangladesh. Layout section Dr Walaa QuisayDr Walaa Quisay is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow. An Oxford graduate, she was formerly a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her postdoctoral research is on carceral theology and prison literature in Egypt. This article was published on Friday 6 February 2026
