Student Profiles

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

Student Profiles Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

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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Erica Canela

My thesis explores the topic of religious identity and early Quakerism in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, encompassing their origins in the mid-seventeenth century to the period…

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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

Originally an investigation into the connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Quaker silent worship, and the minds of non-human animals. The starting point is the…

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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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Student Profiles Woodbrooke Quaker learning and research

David Tatum

My study will be exploring the doctrine of the immortal soul and the mortality of Jesus.  I will be looking at what it means for…

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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 looking into contributing factors for…

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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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