Academic Staff
Our team of academic staff are able to offer support and supervision in all areas of Quaker Studies. Some names below link to pages for more information about each person. If our tutors and other staff see the Our Team section.
Rhiannon Grant
Rhiannon Grant is Woodbrooke’s Deputy Programme Leader for Research and Programme Coordinator for Modern Quaker Thought. Rhiannon’s work at Woodbrooke spans academic and practice-based approaches…
‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion
‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion is Woodbrooke’s Programme Leader for Research. Ben began his academic work in Quaker studies in the late 1980s, co-founding the Quaker Studies…
Associate Academics
Saskia Basa
Saskia Basa (she/they) leads QCEA’s Migration & Peace Programme. She has previously worked providing direct support to people on the move through a number community-led…
Rebecca Wynter
Rebecca Wynter (BA (Joint Hons) MPhil PhD FHEA FRHistS) is a historian of medicine and of Quakers. Her research and publications centre on the history…
Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood is a Woodbrooke Associate Tutor, a visiting researcher at the Centre of Religion and Public Life (University of Leeds). He has previously taught…
Anne Watson
During my career I started as a mathematics teacher and eventually became Professor of Mathematics Education, now retired. Always keeping one foot in the life…
Siân Roberts
History, especially twentieth-century Quaker women in humanitarian relief, education and social justice; refugee histories; histories of childhood; Birmingham history.
Rosemary Moore
After some thirty years of teaching and raising a family, I took early retirement in 1985 and presently returned to academic study. This led in…
Hugh McLeod
History, especially religion and sport in modern Britain; Comparison between the religious trajectories of the United States and of western Europe, with special reference to…
Jon R. Kershner
I live near Seattle in the United States with my two young daughters and wife, who works as a High School math teacher. I am…
Richard C. Allen
I am currently a PGR Lead Supervisor at the School of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham/ CRQS Woodbrooke College, Birmingham. Formerly a Reader in…
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…