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.

Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

‘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…

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Associate Academics

Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

Jonathan Carmichael

Jonathan Carmichael has worked on improving care in the NHS and voluntary organisations, developing services that cross traditional boundaries between community nurses, GPs, social care…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood is a Woodbrooke Associate Tutor, a visiting researcher at the Centre of Religion and Public (University of Leeds). He has previously taught Theology…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

Don Rowe

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

Siân Roberts

History, especially twentieth-century Quaker women in humanitarian relief, education and social justice; refugee histories; histories of childhood; Birmingham history.

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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…

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Academic Staff Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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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