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:

  • 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'
  • Anna Dolman, ‘Displaying Disability in Victorian Jewish Manchester’
  • Lev Eakins - 'Redating the Gospel of Mark’
  • Bethan Hayes – ‘Blind Spots in Identity and Critical Theory: Analysing the conceptualisation of Antisemitism and Jewish Representation in Gender, Queer, Postcolonial and Critical Race Discourses’
  • Bethany Hodgkinson -  ‘How British Cathedral's Use of Archival Material in Exhibitions Reflects and Shapes Religious Identity’
  • 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'
  • Robert Kanter – 'A history of Jewish-Muslim relations in the UK (c 1900-1999)'
  • Mateusz Krzesinski – ‘"Circumcision of heart' in Romans 2.29 in light of the Jewish concept of purity'
  • Aaron Lipsey – ‘The Responses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the Holocaust: A Study of His Letters, Talks and Teachings’
  • John Little - 'Famines, epidemics and emotions in colonial India, 1871-1921'
  • Alistair Lowe – 'Discovering aspects of Christian discipleship in a post-modern context'
  • Kerry McCall - 'Experiences of Anti-Semitism among Jewish women in interwar Britain'
  • Imisioluwa Owolabi, ‘Beyond Spiritual Liberation: Exploring the Potential of Liberation Theology’
  • 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'
  • Lynne Potts – ‘Perspectives on Hope - A New Examination of Hope in the Book of Job’
  • 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?'

Our recently completed doctoral students include: