Dr Ken Farrimond BA (Oxon), MA (Bristol), PhD (Leeds)
Lecturer, Director of Studies -
Teaches: Pastoral Theology; Church History
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 studied theology and church history at Trinity College Bristol before undertaking doctoral research at the University of Leeds. His doctoral thesis considered the work of the Church Missionary Society and the formation of self-governing indigenous Churches in the early twentieth century.
Ken is a member of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, which links with his research interest in the history of mission and contemporary missiology. He is also interested in approaches to theological reflection as well as emerging forms of worship. He is married to Sarah, and they have two children.
‘I enjoy being alongside the broad spectrum of students at the College as they develop academically and as ministers.’