Research seminars

Research students, staff and honorary research fellows take part in Queen's research seminar programme. Recent papers include:

7 February 2022

• Nicola Slee and Sinwoong Kim, 'Workshop on the PhD Journey'

25 November 2021

• Allison Fenton, ‘Mothers Negotiating Christening: Folk and Family’
• Nicola Slee, ‘Empathy and immersion as theological values in Qualitative research’

23 June 2021

• Rasika Abeysinghe, ‘Liturgical Silence: Encountering the Sri Lankan Buddhist Culture in Christian Worship’
• John Binns, ‘Monasticism, old and new’
• Robert Foster, ‘The Evocative and Emotional Language of Mark (and how Matthew and Luke deal with it?)’

26 February 2021

• Ian Jones, ‘Four time perspectives on discipleship’
• Cathy Marks, ‘Black. African. Woman. Christian. And living with HIV in Britain: A discourse on spirituality, faith and the church’

6 February 2021

• Tom Parker, ‘James, Jesus, and Leviticus 19: A brief consideration of the process and purpose of James’ use of the Old Testament and Jesus traditions’
• Martin Dudley, 'The Holy Cross and the Life-giving Tomb: Passion and Resurrection in West and East’

1 December 2020

• Lesley Bentley, ‘Looking after orphans and widows’: Scriptures chosen by participants and partners to illuminate the work of the NGO Hands at Work in Africa’
• Charlotte-Catherine Hope-Rivers, ‘Dark and beautiful: a critical investigation into African-Caribbean women’s leading of worship in Evangelical churches in Britain’
• Ben Alduous, ‘Walking - The Importance of Slowing Down

19 March 2020

• Lesley Bentley, ‘A Critical Theological Introduction to Hands at Work in Africa, based upon what the NGO says about itself’
• Nigel Rooms and Elli Wort, ‘Researching Church, Gospel & Culture in the North of England’
• Martin Dudley, ‘The Holy Cross and the Life-Giving Tomb’
• Dave Allen, ‘Inter-narratival Dialoguing: Paul’s Use of Exodus Traditions’

30 January 2020

• Paul Kim, ‘Korean missionaries and liquefaction’
• Karamat Iqbal, ‘British Pakistani boys in Birmingham; education and the role of religion – in the land of the Trojan Horse’
• Lindsey Taylor-Gutharz, ‘Red Threads, Amulets, and Chewing Buttons: Are Modern Jewish Women Practising Magic?'

15 November 2019

• Mark Ord, ‘Boundaries and Bridges: Leaving the Gathered Community’
• Ann Conway-Jones, ‘Luke 4:28-30: Jesus at the Synagogue in Nazareth, Biblical Commentary and Jewish-Christian Relations'
• Israel Olofinjana, ‘African Diaspora Christianity and Missions: Towards African British Theology’
• Ben Aldous, ‘Pirates, Pasties and Practical Theology: Taking Cornish culture and context seriously when utilizing the resource church model’

20 June 2019

• Anna Leyden, ‘Towards a theology of intra-church disagreement: engaging Rowan Williams and Ephraim Radner on “good disagreement” in the Church of England”
• Jeremy Worthen, ‘Unity as Union and Communion: Marking the Centenary of the Lambeth Conference’s Appeal to All Christian People’
• Jeremy Worthen, ‘Unity as Union and Communion: Marking the Centenary of the Lambeth Conference’s Appeal to All Christian People’

28 January 2019

• Christo Balraj, 'Post Conflict and Post Colonial Reading of the Bible: General Methods and Principles'
• Lesley Bentley, 'Short term mission within partnership: a contemporary expression of mission?'
• Revd Dr John Binns, 'The Ethiopian Orthodox Church – a traditional African theology'