Theology PhD student Dave Shaw tells us about his research and why he loves his PhD.
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The Department of Theology and Religion at Exeter is a centre of excellence for teaching and research across a broad and diverse range of interests within the discipline. We are a dynamic and friendly team who offer intellectually challenging and wide-ranging teaching, and a flourishing research culture.
Meet our academics
Here are a few of our academics involved in research within the department;
Our current PGRs
We're proud of the research carried out by our PhD students. There are currently around 50 PhD students in the Department, many of whom maintain an online personal profile detailing their research activities. Follow the links below to find out more about them and their research projects.
Student | Research title | First supervisor | Second supervisor |
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Rachel Addison | Overcoming the legacy of Eugenics - historical, cultural and religious issues regarding the legitimacy of state involvement in the use of generic technologies. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Professor Christopher Southgate |
Joshua Bryant | An Empire Made Safe:The roles of late antique Roman fortified structures in the Eastern frontier region. | Professor Emma Loosley | Dr Ioana Oltean |
Robert William Button | The Theology of Ritual in the Russian Orthodox Tradition: Perspectives on the Nikonian Reforms. | Professor Morwenna Ludlow | Professor Emma Loosley |
Philippa Campbellclause | Eucharistic Food Ethics: Challenging our Stale Economy with the Bread of Life in an Era of Increasing Food Insecurity. | Professor Christopher Southgate | Professor Tim Gorringe |
Esther Chew Su Li | Recovering Heilsgeschichte for a Trinitarian Ethic | Dr Esther D. Reed | Dr Brandon Gallaher |
Elisabeth Cook | Implications of Ezra 9-10. | Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou | Professor David Horrell |
Penelope Cowell Doe | Queering The Pilling Report | Dr Louise Lawrence | Dr Susannah Cornwall |
Jonathan Curtis | Teetotalism as ethical choice. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Avril Mewse |
Catherine Donner | The centrality of death in the life and writings of Thomas More. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Professor Henry French |
Paschalis Gkortsilas | John Chrysostom and the Greeks: Hellenism and Greek philosophy in the rhetoric of John Chrysostom | Professor Morwenna Ludlow | Dr Richard Flower |
Stephen Goundrey-Smith | The Impact of Pharmaceutical Research on the Shape of Human Life in the 20th Century | Professor Christopher Southgate | Dr Jonathan Hill |
Eva Marina Syster Hannus | ‘Theological anthropology in light of evolutionary and cognitive science’ | Professor Christopher Southgate | Dr Jonathan Hill |
Alistair Harper | ‘Subversive-Fulfilment’: How Acts relates with the Greco-Roman world | Professor David Horrell | Professor Morwenna Ludlow |
Giovanni Hermanin De Reichenf | The role of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John within Origen’s and Augustine’s Commentaries. | Professor Morwenna Ludlow | Dr David Tollerton |
David Horner | Body and Soul: An evaluation of Richard Swinburne’s arguments for substance dualism | Dr Jonathan Hill | Joel Krueger |
Cherryl Hunt | The manner the Bible is read and used in churches. | Dr Louise Lawrence | Dr Mike Higton |
Hyun Kang | Establishing a novel eco-feministic model of godfrom Korean folklore. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Heidi Hadsell |
Ha Young Kim | Divine Christology and Priestly Sacrifice in 1 Peter. | Professor David Horrell | Dr Louise Lawrence |
Diane Lincoln | Emerging Church | Dr Esther D. Reed | Avril Mewse |
Daniel McClellan | Divine Agency in Early Israelite and Jewish Literature and Cult | Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou | Professor Siam Bhayro |
Daniel Nessim | Didache, Torah, Gentile and Jew: A paradigm of distinction and unity. | Professor David Horrell | Professor Siam Bhayro |
Amy Poppinga | Knowledge preceding action. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Scott Thumma |
Louise Prideaux | Towards a Christian Theology of Contemporary Culture in the Reformed Tradition | Dr Esther D. Reed | Dr Louise Lawrence |
Leanna Rierson | Evaluating Paul’s Power-in-Weakness Claims and Strategies in the Corinthian Correspondence in Light of Current Vulnerability and Humility Research | Professor David Horrell | Dr Louise Lawrence |
Mark Rivers Bland | Can money be “made” to glorify God? A proposal for a church-based token currency. | Dr Esther D. Reed | Professor Tim Gorringe |
Carla Roland | Theology and Religious Studies. | Professor Ian Netton | Yahya Michot |
David Shaw | New testament: Identity and Mission in the Letter of 1 Peter. | Professor David Horrell | Dr Louise Lawrence |
Hyunte Shin | New Testament Eschatology and the Environmental Crisis of South Korea: Towards a Contextual Christian Environmental Ethic | Professor David Horrell | Professor Christopher Southgate |
Rebekah Welton | A Study of Gluttony and Drunkenness in Narratives of the Hebrew Bible in Relation to the Law of the Rebellious Son in Deuteronomy 21:18-21 | Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou | Rita Langer |
Ying Lam Yip | Choosing to Suffer: A Narrative Analysis of the Identity-Making Processes in Philippians | Professor David Horrell | Dr Louise Lawrence |