Revd Canon Dr Gale Richards

Associate Supervisor
Email: tbc

Gale is an Associate Supervisor for postgraduate supervision at Westcott House, specialising in the following areas:

• Womanist theology
• Practical theology
• Ecclesiology
• Congregational studies

An ordained Baptist minister, Gale serves as a part-time regional minister for the Eastern Baptist Association with a particular focus on Baptist churches and ministers in Cambridgeshire. She has a strong commitment to ecumenism and has served as an honorary Ecumenical Canon at Ely Cathedral since 2022. She also serves as a chaplain to Westminster College, Cambridge and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College, Oxford.

Gale completed her PhD in Divinity at Bristol Baptist College/University of Aberdeen. Her research undertook an (auto) ethnographic study of Black Baptist women leaders that grew out of her coordinating role for the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s BME Women Ministers Network from 2014 – 2020. Currently, she is working with Baptist congregations in Birmingham to help them explore their Black church history.

Gale is a member of the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network.

Outside of research and ministry, Gale loves to watch tennis.

Publications

(ed.) with Anthony Reddie and Wale Hudson-Roberts Journeying to Justice: Contributions to the Baptist Tradition Across the Black Atlantic (Paternoster, 2017).

Book Chapter: ‘Learning from the Church’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Responding to the Exploitation and Trafficking of People Today’ in Slavery-Free Communities edited by Dan Pratt (SCM, 2021).

‘James McClendon and the Use of Biography for Christian Ethics’ in Journal of Baptist Theology in Context, Issue 7 (2022).

‘Learning from a Pattern in Black Baptist Women’s Formation for Ordained Ministry at English Baptist Colleges’, Baptist Quarterly, Volume 55, 2024, Issue 4.