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'