Meet our PhD supervisors
Benefit from the supervision of leading evangelical scholars across the fields of Biblical Studies, Systematic & Historical Theology and Church History.
Theology (Systematic and Historical)
Donald Fairbairn
Research Interests: Historical Theology (particularly Patristics), Systematic Theology
Daniel Hames
Research Interests: Systematic Theology (particularly doctrine of God, Christology, soteriology), Historical Theology
Michael Reeves
Research Interests: Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, Church History
Thomas Brand
Research interests: Trinitarian Theology and Christology in the Patristic, Scholastic and Reformation eras; Kantian epistemology
Leonardo De Chirico
Research Interests: Roman Catholicism, Ecumenical theology, Contemporary evangelical theology
Brad Green
Research Interests: Augustine, Biblical Theology--especially questions of works/obedience/faithfulness in the Christian life, Modern thought--Critical Theory
Robert Letham
Research Interests: Systematic Theology
Peter Sanlon
Research Interests: Systematic Theology, Apologetics, Patristics
Donald Maclean
Research interests: Early 18th century Scottish theology, the doctrine of the church in Reformed thought (16th-18th century), the works of John Murray (1898-1975)
Corneliu Simut
Research Interests: Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, Contemporary Theology
Kevin Vanhoozer
Research Interests: Systematic Theology
Biblical Studies (New Testament and Old Testament, including Biblical Theology)
Clive Bowsher
Research Interests: New Testament (particularly Johannine studies), Biblical Theology
Tomas Bokedal
Research Interests: Christian origins, paratextual features of the New Testament and the relation of ‘Scripture and Theology’
Myrto Theocharous
Research Interests: Old Testament; Septuagint and Early Judaism; Old Testament Ethics
John Evans
Research Interests: Biblical Theology, Old Testament prophecy, Hermeneutics
Rohintan Mody
Research Interests: New Testament (Pauline studies)
Alun Thomas
Research Interests (Cyfrwng Cymraeg a Saesneg): The origins and character of ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
Steffen Jenkins
Research Interests: Psalms, Hebrew Poetry
Rebecca Rine
Research Interests: Patristic commentaries; material history of the Bible; ancient and modern patterns of biblical quotation; the use of the Bible in academic writing; theological and pastoral writing; the history of the sermon; rabbinic literature and rabbinic reasoning; linguistic theory, especially semiotics; translation theory; ancient and modern cultures of Bible study
Michael Morales
Research Interests: The Torah, the Former Prophets and Latter Prophets, Gospels and Acts, biblical theology, history of Jewish interpretation/Jewish sources
Mission and Religions
Iain McGee
Research Interests: Christian Theology of Religions
Keith Ferdinando
Research interests: Missiology, Global (especially African) theology, The concept of spiritual warfare in Scripture and in contemporary debate.
Gary McKee
Research Interests: Missiology
Andy Bannister
Research Interests: Apologetics, Islam
Church History
Lee Gatiss
Research Interests: Church History
Ian Shaw
Research Interests: Church History
Richard Turnbull
Research Interests: Church History, Anglicanism
Michael Haykin
Research Interests: The history of the church in late antiquity; and the history of the British Baptists in the long eighteenth century along with the influence of Jonathan Edwards.
Robert Strivens
Research Interests: History, Church History, Historical Theology
John Wilsey
Research Interests: History of American religious nationalism, Conservatism in the United States, Religion and Diplomacy in the Cold War
Andy Messmer
Research Interests: Biblical Studies and Church History (esp. Spanish Reformation)
Brian Talbot
Research Interests: Church History
David Ceri Jones
Research Interests: Church History (early modern to the present); history of Evangelicalism; George Whitefield; history of Wales
Pastoral Theology and Spiritual Formation
Roger Abbott
Research Interests: Practical Theology; Practical theology of major incident response, and natural hazard-related disasters; theologies of trauma; pastoral care of trauma; science-faith collaboration, Ethno-theology
Robin Barfield
Research Interests: Children’s Ministry
Kirsten Birkett
Research Interests: Emotional development in the Christian life from theological, psychological and historical perspectives
Welsh Church History
Rhodri Glyn
Research Interests (Cyfrwng Cymraeg a Saesneg): Evangelical/ Reformed theology in Wales since the Reformation, and especially the influence of nonconformist Christianity on politics, culture and society in general in Wales during the nineteenth century
Andras Iago
Research Interests (Cyfrwng Cymraeg a Saesneg): Church History and Theology in Wales, particularly in the Early Modern and Victorian period