Baroness (Elizabeth) Berridge of the Vale of Catmose has been in the House of Lords since January 2011. On appointment she was the youngest female peer. Most recently Elizabeth was Schools’ Minister (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State) in the Department for Education and Minister for Women (February 2020-September 2021). From July 2019 to February 2020... Read more
Lily Jeffrey joined Regent’s Park College as Project Research Fellow in February 2024. At Regent’s, she works to extend the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Her core research orients around two axes. The first being to support the strengthening and harmonisation of rights standards in contributions to other... Read more
Daniel Cloney has worked in the field of international human rights since 2010. At Regent’s, he is Senior Project Research Fellow at the Research Unit of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. As one of the United Nations Special Procedures mechanisms, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief prepares annual... Read more
Freya Baetens (Cand. Jur./ Lic.Jur. (Ghent); LL.M. (Columbia); Ph.D. (Cambridge)) is Professor of Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub (Pembroke College) and Project Director for the LGBT+ Summer School Programme (Regent’s Park College). At Regent’s Park College, Prof. Baetens heads the two-part ‘GIC+ Summer School’... Read more
Gale completed a PhD with the University of Aberdeen exploring the womanist perspectives of Black British Baptist women leaders for the renewal of Baptist church practices. Gale is currently leading the Birmingham Baptist Churches exploring their Black History research project. Gale is also a part-time regional minister for the Eastern Baptist Association, an Ecumenical Canon... Read more
I am a Research Fellow in Economics at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and a Lillian Goldman Junior Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College. I completed my PhD in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2023. Previously, I earned a Master’s in Quantitative Economics at the Paris School of Economics and... Read more
My main areas of interest are religious conversion, freedom of religion, world Christianity (with a particular focus on Somalia), Muslim-Christian relations, and the intersection of science and religion. I received my PhD from the University of St Andrews in Divinity after serving for seven years as a journalist with the largest public radio broadcasting organisation... Read more
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Change Institute where I lead the Resilience & Development Group’s work on scenarios as part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience, as well as the Group’s research Programmes on greening finance for nature. Its focus is on developing tools and analytics for financial institutions... Read more
I am Stefanie Conradt, Fellow of the William Leech Research Fund and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College. I have been conducting The Reflecting Together Project, a participatory theological action research project from November 2023 to November 2024, together with Churches Together South Tyneside. My academic career includes working... Read more