Associate Tutors

Woodbrooke also has a large number of volunteer and freelance Associate Tutors who help to run our learning programme and deliver many of our courses. If you are interested in offering service as an Associate Tutor then please contact us.

Associate Tutors Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

Mark Russ

Mark Russ is a writer, theologian and teacher. His teaching interests include spiritual practice and music, the Bible, hope, whiteness, modern Christian theology, and the…

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Ann Conway-Jones

Ann Conway-Jones specialises in biblical interpretation and early Jewish–Christian relations. She combines up-to-date scholarship with enthusiasm for teaching adults. Ann is an Honorary Research Fellow…

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Chris Skidmore

Chris Skidmore is a former clerk of Yearly Meeting who has been part of the ‘Being a Quaker Clerk’ team since 2017, teaching both at…

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Christine Habgood-Coote

Christine Habgood-Coote. I have been a Quaker for more than 30 years and worship with Brighton Meeting. I have held various local and national Quaker roles,…

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Gilly Charters

Gilly Charters came back to Quakers in the 1980s. She has served with Eldership and Pastoral Friend teams and enjoys inreach and outreach.

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Helen Chambers

Helen Chambers is an elder and pastoral friend and trainer with Quaker Life children and young people’s team.

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Ivan Hutnik

Ivan Hutnik is a member of the QPSW conciliation group and Restoring Relations, with an interest in early Quaker history and the intersection of personal…

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Jasmine Piercy

Jasmine Piercy is a British Quaker living in Slovenia. She is a Woodbrooke Associate Tutor and serves as an elder and facilitator for the Friends…

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Jenny Tipping

Jenny Tipping is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and a Certified Coach in Needs-Based Coaching.  Her work with organisations and individuals focusses on diversity and inclusion, decision-making, and spirituality.  She is a Quaker, and through NVC seeks to live out the peace testimony in her personal and working life.

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Joanne Klassen

Joanne Klassen is the originator of Life Writing for Transformation™. Her passion is discovering the liberation, grace and guidance that can flow from our hearts…

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Tracey Martin

Tracey Martin is the director of the Council for European Affairs, a poet and formerly the coordinator of peace, social justice and climate crisis programme…

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Kate McNally

A psychologist by training, Kate McNally worked as a university professor and as a management consultant in the US and Canada. She has represented Quakers…

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Linda Craig

Linda Craig worships at Westminster meeting and is their Treasurer, and the Area Meeting’s Registering Officer for Marriages. She is a Trustee of London Quakers…

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Timothy Peat Ashworth

Timothy Peat Ashworth has written on Paul the apostle and is coming towards the end of a major work on early Christian experience. As one…

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Stuart Masters

Stuart Masters is a teacher and writer offering learning opportunities that explore the roots of the Quaker way, its theology, spirituality and relationship with other…

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Rosie Carnall

Rosie Carnall is a Quaker and an experienced facilitator. Her practice centres on philosophical enquiry and creative writing. She loves to get people of all…

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Betty Hagglund

Betty is Senior Lecturer for the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies. Betty will be working to make the extraordinary research work that has been…

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Jonathan Doering

Jonathan Doering became convinced whilst attending Muswell Hill LM twenty years ago and has held various Quaker roles since then. Working in education and community…

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Judith Roads

Judith Roads is absorbed in exploring and sharing ways of giving service to Quaker meetings through appointed roles.

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Susan Groves

Susan Groves grew up in Southern Africa and has a passion and curiosity around the theme of whiteness. She values contemplation, creativity and a playful…

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Jennifer Kavanagh

Jennifer Kavanagh is a speaker on the Spirit-led life, and author of, among other books, A Little Book of Unknowing, The World is our Cloister…

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Carol Harper

Carol Harper, MA Carol is a psychological therapist, supervisor and trainer. She serves as a voluntary Quaker prison chaplain.

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Denise Renshaw

Denise Renshaw retired in 2006 from full time work as a Physiotherapist and started to volunteer with a small charity that ran the visitor’s centre…

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Judith Baker

Judith Baker is an experienced Registering Officer.

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Judy Roles

Judy Roles is a Member of Gloucestershire Area Meeting and first attended Quaker Meetings when she worked in London in the 1980s as a producer…

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Zélie Gross

Zélie Gross is enthusiastic about enabling participants on her courses to discover their unique gifts and abilities and to broaden their experience through exposure to…

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Philip Gross

Philip Gross is committed to the principles of collaboration and disciplined playfulness in freeing the life of our words. He has worked with visual artists,…

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Dana Littlepage Smith

Dana is enjoying learning about Centering Prayer through a variety of forums.  She is a teacher and poet who occasionally contributes to The Friend

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Annique Seddon

Annique Seddon taught English and then trained as a counsellor at Manchester University. She set up a counselling service for staff and students in a…

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Daniel Clarke Flynn

Daniel Clarke Flynn is a native of San Francisco, citizen of Ireland and resident of Belgium. He worships at Westminster Meeting, London, and is a…

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Marilyn Higgins

Marilyn Higgins is a member of Central Edinburgh Meeting and recently served on Quaker Life Central Committee. She has considerable experience of being a Woodbrooke…

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Rosemary Field

Rosemary has been a Quaker all her adult life. She greatly valued the experience of Equipping for Ministry 2015-17 and in 2021 she was awarded…

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John Gray

John Gray works as an organisational facilitator, coach and supervisor, and is an Associate at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights. He…

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Laura J. Rediehs

Laura J. Rediehs is Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy at St. Lawrence University in the U.S.A. Her research interests include the philosophy of science and…

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Richard Drake

Richard Drake has been a Quaker since 2002 and has held several roles at Local and Area Meeting level including treasurer and elder. He is…

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Rachel Berger

Rachel Berger spent her working life trying to mitigate the impacts of the climate and ecological crises. She continues this work near home and in…

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Jon R. Kershner

Jon R. Kershner is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University. He is a member of Sierra-Cascades…

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Rosie Venner

Rosie Venner works for JustMoney Movement (justmoney.org.uk), an ecumenical Christian charity. She leads the Money Makes Change programme, which equips people to explore ethical issues…

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Erica Canela

Dr. Erica Canela is an early modern social historian, specialising in English Quaker history and the psychological trauma of the Civil Wars. She holds a…

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Ann Morgan

Ann’s early career was spent teaching history and sociology. She worked in education, qualification development and training for forty-six years. Brought up in a Methodist/Socialist…

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David Curtis

David Curtis is currently working on a new translation and commentary on The Gospel of Mary, in between leading friendly study groups, building websites for…

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Marion Winslow

Marion Winslow worked as a psychotherapist in the second half of her life and has long been inspired by the ‘ecopsychological’ and systemic approach to…

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August Gawen

August is a trans man and minimalism life coach. August has a postgraduate diploma in missional leadership and is interested in the intersection between simplicity,…

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Naomi Richards

Naomi Richards is currently one of the organisers of an international youth programme based in Sweden. (www.yip.se) Her focus has previously been on community projects…

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Sam Donaldson

Sam hosts courageous conversations, brave learning spaces and slow, sacred retreats, helping people and organisations to make sense of and live well within this time…

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James Priestman

James Priestman was awarded a BA Honours Degree in Biblical Studies by the University of Sheffield in 1989. He has a Master’s degree in Social…

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Windy Cooler

Windy Cooler, assistant clerk of Sandy Spring Meeting, describes herself as a practical theologian, public minister, good Quaker pirate, and cultural worker. She has been…

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Lucy Parker

Lucy Parker’s mother first went to Meeting at the age of 17, and Lucy has worshipped with Friends since her teens after moving to the…

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Heather Rowlands

Heather is currently serving her local meeting as clerk and is a member of the children’s committee. She has worked in primary education and now…

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Caitlin McGeever

Caitlin McGeever is a PhD candidate at George Mason University in Virginia. She studies early modern religion, gender, and family history in Early America and…

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Gordon Benson

Gordon Benson has a background in co-operative and voluntary sector development and in that role he helped third sector organisations access the European Structural Funds…

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Xavier Johnson

Xavier L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Preaching and Black Church Studies at United Theological Seminary and the pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church, both in Dayton, Ohio. He has previously taught at Earlham School of Religion and Duke Divinity School. He has published numerous articles and book chapters.

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Stephen Angell

Stephen W. Angell is the Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 11 books and numerous articles and book chapters, including (with Hal Weaver and Paul Kriese) Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011). He is a member of Oxford Meeting, part of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting.

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Rob Paton

Rob Paton has attended Milton Keynes Meeting for 24 years, serving variously as Elder, Co-clerk and Trustee. His support for environmental causes goes back 40…

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Phil Dahl

Having been brought up in a clergy home and explored the Anglican priesthood after studying German at University in Manchester, Phil was drawn to Quakers…

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Sarah Donaldson

Sarah Donaldson is a member of Manchester & Warrington Area Meeting. She has extensive experience as a Quaker clerk and as a Quaker trustee and…

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Till flo* Krapoth

Till flo* Krapoth (pronoun-free) is a Quaker living in Germany. Till flo* is translating the Journal of George Fox into modern German. While training to…

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Evan Welkin

Evan Welkin (Olympia Monthly Meeting-North Pacific Yearly Meeting) serves as the Executive Secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation-Section of the Americas after previous…

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Douglas Gwyn

Douglas Gwyn has served among Friends variously as a peace educator for the American Friends Service Committee, as a Friends pastoral minister, as a teacher…

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Shena Deuchars

Shena Deuchars has been attending a Quaker meeting since 2015 and became a member of North Somerset Area in 2018. She has served in a…

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Gill Greenfield

Gill Greenfield has been a Quaker for most of her life and has held a range of roles in local, area and yearly meeting. She…

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Paulette Meier

Paulette Meier is a Quaker singer/songwriter, peace educator, and member of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting and Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her strong…

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Rachel Krishnaswami

Rachel Krishnaswami is passionate about diversity and inclusion in Quaker communities. In 2023 she studied modern Quaker families with the help of a research scholarship…

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Shanon Shah

Shanon is the Director of Faith for the Climate. He balanced careers in human rights advocacy, journalism, and theatre and music in his native Malaysia…

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Amanda Woolley

Amanda Woolley is an Elder with Totnes Quakers. She feels deeply the interconnectedness of spirituality, community, nature and activism – drawing on experience of community projects, Transition Town…

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Emma Condori Mamani

Emma Condori-Mamani es una Cuáquera de América del Sur. Desde su niñez creció con los Cuáqueros. Ha trabajado y servido en varias organizaciones cuáqueras. Le…

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Ailish Carroll-Brentnall

Ailish works as a Faith in Action Coordinator for QPSW, supporting grassroots climate witness. Ailish is interested in supporting Friends to employ diverse tactics to…

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Pamela Haines

Pamela Haines, an active member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, shares her passion about the earth, relationships, integrity, economics, paying attention, and repair of all…

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Lindsey Markwell

Lindsey Markwell, a Quaker living in Suffolk, follows a faithful leading towards a simplified life. She inspires others in exploring ways of engaging with the…

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Brian Blackmore

Brian Blackmore is a Philadelphia-based Quaker educator, historian, activist, and community builder who currently serves as the Director of Quaker Engagement for the American Friends…

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Wendy Pattinson

Wendy Pattinson has a keen interest in the role of religion and spirituality in society, especially in how it could help us learn to live…

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Lottie Child

Lottie has been part of Dorking Meeting since 2014 and has been involved with NVC since 2019. At the core of her approach is the…

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Martin Urschel

Martin Urschel is a film scholar specialising in film philosophy. He has written his Doctorate thesis at the University of Oxford on Wittgenstein and Popular…

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Tony Martin

Tony and Patsy Martin have been chanting as a spiritual practice and as ministry for over 20 years. During that time, they have been leading…

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Patsy Martin

Tony and Patsy Martin have been chanting as a spiritual practice and as ministry for over 20 years. During that time, they have been leading…

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Lucas De Koning

Lucas is a project manager and facilitator with www.movementecology.org.uk. His practice is education and (community) organising, predominantly in the climate movement. Lucas has a passion…

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Imi Hills

Imi Hills has been a member since 2018, and in that time has served on the committees of YMAC, JYM and Junior Gathering, and has…

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Shumo Wang

Shumo Wang is a practitioner, minister, and scholar of the Confucian tradition. He was born and raised in China and moved to Cambridge in 2017,…

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Wenjun Zou

Wenjun Zou came to the UK in 2001 to study, earning an MA in Finance and Accounting. After several years working in the City of…

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Tom Deacon

Tom feels most at home immersed in the elementals of the hills, mountains and coastlines of these islands. He draws great inspiration from weaving and…

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Sasha Lawson-Frost

Sasha Lawson-Frost became a Quaker after she found herself believing in God in her early 20s, and she currently attends Richmond and Leyburn Quaker Meeting.Sasha…

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Tyna Redpath

Tyna Redpath has lived in Glastonbury for 40 years, a unique and diverse community of where the Wheel of the Year is a vibrant pattern…

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Cristela Martínez

Cristela Martinez es miembro de la Iglesia Evangélica Amigos de El Salvador. Ella ha sido una cuaquera por convicción desde que tenia 12 años. Cristela…

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Özge Altinkaya

Özge Altinkaya has been teaching NVC since 2017, working with diverse groups ranging from teachers and activists to corporate organisations and non-profits. She also mediates…

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Jeannette Law

Jeannette Law is an international educator who advises students towards their best educational and career paths around the globe. An American of Chinese descent, she…

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Adwoa Burnley

Adwoa Burnley is a Quaker who, through serving in various roles, is most passionate about creating an environment in which we can listen to that…

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