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.

	Simon Best is Woodbrooke's Nurturing Friends and Meetings Tutor. He is passionate about the potential for a radical future for Quakers.
	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 a member of Woodbrooke’s tutor team. He is developing new work with young adult Friends and provides support for QPSW placement programmes.
	Maud Grainger is Woodbrooke’s new Faith in Action Tutor. She brings with her experience and passion for environmental, social justice and interfaith work.
	Betty Hagglund is Project Development Officer for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies. Betty will be working to make the extraordinary research work that has been done for degrees more widely known among Friends, the wider academic world and other relevant groups.
	Ian Jackson is Woodbrooke’s Librarian and believes firmly in the power of books to change lives.
	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 and Interfaith Coordinator. He is particularly interested in the early church and the early Quaker movement, and has published Paul's Necessary Sin: the experience of liberation.
	Gill Pennington is Woodbrooke’s Tutor for Quaker Roles. She is enthusiastic about lifelong learning and growth – spiritual, personal, at work and in a Quaker context. She has a background of designing and delivering experiential learning programmes – both indoor and outdoor – for teams and individuals.
	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 Woodbrooke’s Spirituality Tutor. She is passionate about meditation, prayer, spiritual friendship and everyday contemplative living.