Student Profiles

There are over 40 students enrolled in CRQS programmes interested in a wide range of subjects.

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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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Melvin Harris

‘The Quakers of Fritchley 1868 – 1968’.

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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…

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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…

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Stephen Brooks

‘Habermas and Quaker Business Method’.

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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…

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Mark Frankel

T. Edmund Harvey, Liberal Quaker, Quaker Liberal Edmund Harvey (1875-1955) was the pre-eminent Quaker parliamentarian of the first half of the 20th century. I am…

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Frédérique Green (Mrs)

My research focuses on historical and chronological interaction between the politico-legal system of the USA and the Amish. The enquiry explores the power dynamic between…

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Damian Hursey

‘Charles Taylor’s ‘Sources of the Self’ and Life actualisation’.

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Hugh Jones

Following his recent (2018) MA in ‘Quakerism in The Modern World’ from Lancaster University, Hugh is currently undertaking research for a Ph.D in Quaker Studies…

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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…

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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…

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Glen Morrison

My research is in church-growth models. Work initially surveys of all the models of practitioner-authors since 1890. The outcome is a construct-based model formulation of…

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Kevin Mortimer

‘Orthodox and Quaker Soteriology’.

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John Shinebourne

‘The Meaning of Membership’.

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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…

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Nicola Sleapwood

Nicola Sleapwood completed her PhD with Woodbrooke on the changes affecting Quaker owned businesses in the twentieth century.

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Peter Staples

‘The Journals of Joseph Wood, eighteenth-century traveling minister’

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Marion Strachan

‘Norwegian Quaker Relief after the Second World War’.

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Kathie McLelland

I am exploring the decline, laying down, and re-establishing of Keighley Preparative Meeting (Yorkshire) in the nineteenth century.  I am examining the religious, political, and…

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Keith Wilson

I am researching present-day British Quaker discourse, looking particularly at features that make it distinctive in comparison with non-Quaker discourse. Currently one of my main…

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Oscar Lugusa Malande

I will be examining the development and growth of Quakerism as part of the larger Christendom in the African context. It will be informed by studying…

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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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Stewart Yarlett

Stewart Yarlett’s research focuses on liberal Quakerism and nontheism.

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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,…

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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…

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