I am a sociologist of religion, gender and higher education. I have taught on undergraduate and postgraduate sociology and theology programmes at several institutions and supervised many PhD students to successful completion. I have led many externally funded research projects, including by the AHRC, the European Commission, The Leverhulme Trust, the Office for Students and... Read more
Andreas E. Masvie is a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) working on the intersection of political philosophy and theology. Masvie recently submitted his DPhil thesis, in which he examines and develops Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of civic friendship in critical conversation with Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine. He intends to continue working with MacIntyre’s political philosophy to explore... Read more
My main research interests lie in practical theology, practice theories, and contemporary spiritual practice. I am also interested in the role of discourse for practical spirituality, as well as contemporary understandings around spiritual intelligence. My post-doctoral research at Regent’s Park College is an interdisciplinary project that will seek to ‘articulate a pneumatology of practice’. It... Read more
Jaimee van Gemerden earned her PhD from the University of Otago, specialising in feminist theology. Her research now is on methodological questions in feminist and postcolonial theology, with the goal to develop an understanding of settler theology from a feminist perspective. As a Baptist theologian, she is interested in Baptist history and ecclesiology, with a focus... Read more
At Regent’s Park College, I am responsible for coordinating outreach events and providing administrative support throughout the admissions cycle. I joined Regent’s in February 2026, having previously worked as Admissions & Outreach Officer at Worcester College. I am always very happy to talk to schools about life at Oxford, the application process, and the different... Read more
I am a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the University’s School of Archaeology. My MSCA research project investigates the ethnographic and archaeological evidence for diversity and unity across southern African hunter-gatherer societies over the last several millennia. The project creates and uses a new custom database of information from ethnohistorical sources and anthropological studies about... Read more
