Student Profiles
There are over 20 students enrolled in CRQS programmes interested in a wide range of subjects.
Leo Barnard
I hope to re-examine the question of what a Quaker perspective on Mental Health might mean in the 21st Century by looking at delivery of…
Kelvin Beer-Jones
My PhD thesis will be a hybrid of Digital Research Methods (DRM) and Social Network Analysis. It utilises DRM and the development of a digital…
Ian Cook
My work is concerned with Quaker occupations in the eighteenth century. The data has been developed from the Quaker marriage records and I have a…
Chris Lord
An investigation into the connections between Quakerism and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. It’s an exploration of their shared origins and characters, as well as their…
Irena Marusincova
I am a teacher, and also qualified practitioner of Mediated Learning Experience, an interactive system developed by Reuven Feuerstein designed to develop intellect and moral…
Zoë Simms
An examination of whether exposure to Quaker values at school affects adult character. This research question seeks to ascertain whether receiving an education in a…
Kathie McLelland
Thesis Title: Quakers in Keighley and the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1780-1890: Shifting Identities and New Historical Approaches Topics Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Britain; Quaker…
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…
John Cartwright
My research is on evaluating the presence and the effect of dialectic within the ideological dynamics of C19 Britain. Although great changes affected political, cultural,…
Sheryl Metzgner
Sheryl Metzgner graduated with her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2025. Her PhD titled: Queer Spirituality: A Grounded Theopoiesis of Human Becoming as…
John Tranter
My research explores whether British Quakerism can be understood as an emancipatory theology, using prison abolition as a contemporary case study. Prisons in the UK…
Josiane Smith
About the research: My PhD explores how attitudes about slavery changed amongst wealth holders and influential persons within Quaker communities in the 17th and 18th…
Barbara Sharrock
At present I am conducting research into the Quaker Renaissance of the late 19th century. I am concentrating on the role of John Wilhelm Rowntree…
Maggie Stewart Dickenson
My research examines how non-Quakers residing in Scotland perceive Quakerism, with particular attention to the cultural narratives, religious binaries, and social forces that shape public…
