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Dr Claire Williams

Associate Supervisor
Email: cw981@cam.ac.uk

An Associate Supervisor for postgraduate supervision at Westcott House, Claire has expertise in the following areas:

  • Autism and Neurodivergent Theologies
  • Disability Theologies
  • Charismatic and Pentecostal Theologies
  • Feminist Theologies
  • Practical Theology

Claire is a lecturer at Regents Theological College for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of Practical Theology and liberation. She also supervises at these levels. Alongside her teaching role Claire looks after the college’s academic inclusion. This allows her to spend time with the students who have learning differences and disabilities, working with them to make the most of their learning at Regents.

Claire enjoys writing for popular audiences including for both children and adults, as well as academic publications, and has a forthcoming book in press called ‘Blessed are the Anxious’ for Canterbury Press. She is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity.

She is a member of FHEA, European Pentecostal Theological Association, and British and Irish Association of Practical Theology.

Publications

Frestadius, Simo, and Claire Williams (eds.) Wonders and Miracles: Divine Action, Pentecostalism and Science. CPT Press, 2025.

O’Donnell, Karen, and Claire Williams (eds.)Pregnancy and Birth: Critical Theological Conceptions. SCM Press, 2024.

Williams, Claire. Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology SCM Press, 2023.

Williams, Claire. Elizabeth Prentiss: More Love. CF4K, 2019.

Williams, Claire. Blessed are the Anxious Canterbury Press (forthcoming)

‘If I Confess With My Mouth: Conversion narratives and non-speaking Autism’, Religions 15(12), 2024, pp. 1554; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121554

‘Peculiar Theological Education’, Journal of Disability and Religion Neurodiversity and Theological Education 27(4), 2023, pp.552-567. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2023.2255882

‘Mothers in Newfrontiers: Charismatic Spirituality, Motherhood and the Christian Tradition’ in Slee et al. (eds.) Female Faith Practices Routledge, 2023.

‘Autism: A Peculiar Trauma’ in Bearing Witness: Intersectional Perspectives on Trauma Theology eds. Katie Cross and Karen O’Donnell. SCM Press, 2022.