About Woodbrooke

Woodbrooke has the UK's only team of permanent Quaker tutors - in Quaker Studies, Biblical Studies, Practical Theology and Peace and Social Justice. To contact any of our tutors please visit the staff contacts page.

	Ben Pink Dandelion is Honorary Professor and Programmes Leader for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham. He both teaches and supervises postgraduate students in a variety of fields, and his own specialism is Sociology of Religion. He is a prolific author and editor.
	Michael Eccles is co-ordinating aspects of our training work including treasurership, eldership and oversight. His experience includes work with Quaker teens and Young Friends’ General Meeting. He has worked in aid and development, including programmes in Chechnya, the Middle East and Indonesia. He has also recently taken over as QPSW tutor.
	Ian Jackson is Woodbrooke’s Librarian and believes firmly in the power of books to change lives.
	Judith Jenner is Tutor in Quaker Studies. She enjoys working with people who are one way or another on the margins, and is also interested in growth and development within Quaker communities.
	Pam Lunn is now Programme Leader for our new Good Lives work. She brings to this her varied life experience in social change work, spiritual development and lifelong learning.
	Stuart Masters is Senior Programme Leader responsible for our on-site teaching programmes. He has particular interest in early Quaker experience and in peace witness, and is active in building relations between the historic peace churches. His previous work was as a senior manager in social housing.
	Timothy Peat Ashworth is Tutor in Biblical Studies. He is particularly interested in the early church and the early Quaker movement, and has published Paul's Necessary Sin: the experience of liberation.
	Lizz Roe is Senior Programme Leader responsible for courses run in meetings and with groups around Britain and Europe. She has a background in theology and activism, is interested in how Quakers live their faith, and is particularly engaged in environmental witness.
	Helen Rowlands is Head of Education and manages the team. She considers herself a ‘Quaker generalist’, and her own teaching focuses on helping people understand how Quakers tick.
	Julia Ryberg, a Swedish-American Friend based in Sweden, is responsible for our multi-lingual online learning programme in support of Friends and Enquirers across Europe.
	Ginny Wall is Project Developer for ‘Becoming Friends: Living & Learning with Quakers’, the innovative partnership project from Woodbrooke and Quaker Life, which aims to help newcomers to Friends develop an understanding of and connection with Quakerism
	Leonora Wilson now works part time overseeing our training provision for a number of Quaker roles, including Nominations, prison ministry, Registering Officers. She has an interest in prayer and spiritual practice, as well as in music.