Meet our Academic Staff
The College has five members of tutorial staff – four personal tutors and a director of studies – who together share responsibility for the formation and pastoral care of the College’s students. Details of staff of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield can be found by following this link.
Tutorial staff
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The Revd Canon Dr Joe Kennedy BSc BD (Edin), MSt DPhil (Oxon)
Principal -
Joe Kennedy became Principal of the College in 2008. Immediately before coming to the College, Joe worked in student chaplaincy at Cambridge, serving as Dean and Fellow of Selwyn College and as Chaplain at Newnham College. Prior to that, he worked in student…
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Fr Peter Allan CR BA (Oxon)
Lecturer, Vice-Principal -
Peter Allan became a member of the Community of the Resurrection in 1982. Before joining the Community, he served in parochial ministry in the Dioceses of St Albans and Oxford, and as Fellow and Chaplain of Wadham College Oxford.
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The Revd Dr Jennifer Cooper BA (Toronto), MA (Ottawa), DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer, Tutor for Placements -
Jennifer Cooper joined the College staff in 2009, coming from Oxford, where she was a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University. She was Liddon Research Fellow and Senior College Lecturer at Keble College and then Lecturer in Theology at St Benet's Hall,…
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Dr Ken Farrimond BA (Oxon), MA (Bristol), PhD (Leeds)
Lecturer, Director of Studies -
Ken Farrimond joined the College staff in 1997, after a period working for the Church in Uganda initially as a diocesan youth worker and then developing a programme of lay education for collaborative ministry. He read physics at Hertford College Oxford and…
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The Revd Dr Ben Gordon-Taylor BA MA PhD (Dunelm), BA (Leeds), FRSA
Lecturer, Dean of Chapel, Director of the Liturgical Institute -
Ben Gordon-Taylor joined the staff in January 2005 after serving in parishes in Cornwall and Northampton, and then as Solway Fellow and Chaplain of University College, Durham. He was educated at the Universities of Durham and Leeds, gaining research degrees in…
Other members of the teaching faculty at the College
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The Revd Tim Evans BA (York), MA (Sussex), MA (Oxon)
Director of Pastoral Studies, Yorkshire Ministry Course -
Teaches: Pastoral Studies
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Dr Christine Gore BSc (Edin), MA (Brunel), PhD (Glasgow)
Principal, Yorkshire Ministry Course -
Teaches: Biblical Studies; Hermeneutics
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Fr Thomas Seville CR MA (Cantab)
Lecturer (p-t) -
Teaches: Ecclesiology
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The Revd Dr Stephen Spencer BA DPhil (Oxon)
Tutor in Anglican Studies and Ethics, Yorkshire Ministry Course -
Teaches: Anglican Studies; Ethics
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Fr Nicolas Stebbing CR BA (Univ of Zimbabwe), MTh (UNISA), PhD (Leeds)
Lecturer (p-t) -
Teaches: Biblical Languages