Staff Updates

Meet the new staff in our team

2024 New Staff

Professor Gordon Lynch

Professor Gordon Lynch has been appointed as Professor of Religion, Society and Ethics.

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Dr J. Thomas Hewitt

Dr J. Thomas Hewitt has been appointed as Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins.

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Dr Selina Stone

Dr Selina Stone has been appointed as Lecturer in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics.

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Dr Lois McFarland

Dr Lois McFarland has been appointed as Lecturer in Religion and Literature.

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Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik

Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik has been appointed as Lecturer in Science and Religion.

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Dr Upali Sraman

Dr Upali Sraman has been appointed Lecturer in Buddhist Languages.

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2023 New Staff

Dr Pedro Feitoza

Dr 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.

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Dr Alysa Ghose

Dr 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.

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Dr Felicity Loughlin

Dr 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.

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Dr Peter Atkins

Dr Peter Atkins is Teaching Fellow in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible.  He is a graduate of the Universities of Sheffield and Chester.

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Dr Sneha Roy

Dr 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.

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Dr Walaa Quisay

Dr 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.

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