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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.

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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
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