Education and Training
03/10/2016–01/09/2017 MA Christian Theology, Durham University, Durham (United Kingdom)
03/10/2013–06/2016 Combined Honours in Arts Durham University, Durham (United Kingdom)
Mainly theology and philosophy, 1st overall
09/2011–07/2013 A Levels: Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy, Lancaster (United Kingdom)
Mathematics A, Religious Studies A*, History A*, General Studies A*, Extended Project Qualification, A*, AS Critical Thinking B
Work experience
- 09/2013–06/2015 Pre-primary education teaching associate professional at St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, Lancaster (United Kingdom)
My role was a play-worker at the out-of-school club (for Children whose parents are not able to pick them up at the end of School). As a play-worker my responsibilities involved supervising and playing with the children between the ages of four and eleven.
- 11/2017–6/2018 Institution-based personal care worker
KTG Social Care, Lancaster (United Kingdom)
– Washing, dressing, feeding and toileting people in need of care, mainly in residential homes.
-Communicating with people with dementia.
-Moving and handling people in need of care.
– Also supervising children with attachment disorders and behavioural problems in children’s homes.
- 04/2018-06/2018: Freelance writer, CAFOD
Freelance work for CAFOD writing a literature review on Time, Progress and Measures of Success in the key Catholic Social Encyclicals preceding “Laudato Si’'”
- Contribution (in the form of an authored chapter) to the joint publication “Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance” edited by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie. Published 13th March 2018 by Rowman and Littlefield International.
- 21/07/2018- present: Theology Programme Advisor, CAFOD.
Communicating and embedding Catholic Social Teaching and Theological research across CAFOD’s programmes, in collaboration with colleagues and external Theologians and researchers.
Publications
“Holy Time”, story featured in the Together for the Common Good Newsletter, Lent 2021 edition.
Book Review of Theology Comedy, Politics by Marcus Pound, in The Pastoral Review, September 2020.
A Vision of Integral Ecology from the Amazon in The Pastoral Review, August 2020, co-authored with Kezia Lavan.