Current PhD students

Postgraduate research students in Religions and Theology work on a wide range of topics.

Meet our current research students and find out what they're working on:

  • Enoch Adekoya - 'The Church as political society in the political theologies of Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan'
  • Sherry Ashworth – 'Reception of the Book of Esther in Victorian Novels'
  • David Bell – 'Children in the Community of the Text: The Place of Children and Childhood in the Formation, Transmission and Reception of NT Texts in Early Christian Communities'
  • Anna Budhi – 'To what extent can we learn of the Masculinity of the Historical Jesus and can this help Feminist Interpretation of the New Testament Biblical Texts?' 
  • Dominic Budhi – 'A Critical Evaluation of the Public Theology of Manchester Cathedral'
  • Hannah Campbell - 'Sacrificial Daughters: A Literary Investigation into the Unjust Textual Portrayal of Daughters in the Hebrew Bible'
  • Joshua Crosby - 'The Jerusalem Temple through the eyes of Greeks and Romans'
  • Lev Eakin - 'Redating the Canonical Gospels'
  • Tim Gough - 'An exegetical and socio-historical examination into the identify and missional significance of the people group known as 'God-fearers' in the Book of Acts, with some exploration of their potential contemporary equivalence'
  • Joshua Hunt - 'Is There a Difference Between Paul's New Creation Language and the Fourth Gospel's Re-birth Motif? A Comparative Study of Pauline and Johannine Soteriology as Presented in 2 Corinthians 5 and John 3'
  • Vivian Jones-Johnson – 'God has left the building: The death of the black church. A Study in Black Gender and Sexuality'
  • Robert Kanter – 'A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK (c 1900-1999)'
  • Seoyoung Kim – 'A Reformed Water Theology: Global Water Crisis and Towards a Christian Theology of Water'
  • Mateusz Krzesinski – "Circumcision of Heart' in Romans 2.29 in Light of the Jewish Concept of Purity'
  • John Little - 'Famines, Epidemics and Emotions in Colonial India, 1871-1921'
  • Alistair Lowe – 'Discovering Aspects of Christian Discipleship in a Post-Modern Context'
  • Elia Maggang – 'The Sea Is Us, Our Life: An Indonesian Maritime Theology'
  • Kerry McCall - 'Experiences of Anti-Semitism among Jewish Women in Interwar Britain'
  • A. Scott McPeak – 'A New Frontier for Liberation Theology? A Critical, Theological Investigation of Alienation and 'Enslavement' in Advanced Technological Societies'
  • Rachel Miller - 'An intersectional analysis of victim-blaming, female agency and male violence in the Hebrew Bible'
  • Patricia Morris – ‘A Critical Exploration in the Comparative Theology of David Burrell, with Reference to Judeo-Christian and Islamic Perspectives on Eco-theology'
  • Adam North - 'The Revival of Bodily Knowledge in Philosophy in an Age of Governmentality and Biopolitics'
  • Georgia Ovens - 'The Application of 'Woman as Symbol, Women as Agents' (Susan Starr Sered, 1999): Concepts of Gender in Select Writings from the Nag Hammadi Codices and Related Codices'
  • Sunkyo Park - 'Church and the matter of inequality: A study on how Christian ethics can be used in tackling structural violence and adversarial images in the South Korean Church'
  • John Saleeb - 'Cyrenaica in the Bible: From the Time of the Maccabees to the Second Century AD'
  • Daniel Skuce - 'An Examination of the Material Culture of Apocalypticism'
  • Julie Thornton – 'What Influence did the Roman Empire have on Paul’s View of Imperialism as he Grew Up in Tarsus and how did this Reflect in his Letters?'
  • Andrew Wisdom – 'The Renewing of your Minds; Psychological Trauma and Mental Health in the Pauline Epistles'