Postgraduate Research
Through partnership with Anglia Ruskin University, Westcott House has a thriving postgraduate research community. We have full and part-time students, either resident in Cambridge or from much further afield, who are studying for PhDs independently or as part of their ordination training.
All postgraduate students are welcomed into the life of Westcott House as members of the worshipping community here and have tutors who provide pastoral care during their studies. They also join with other research students from across the Cambridge Theological Federation for research seminars, postgraduate community life, and various training opportunities.
Further information on studying for a PhD with Anglia Ruskin University is available from the Cambridge Theological Federation
Members of our academic team are open to enquiries about potential doctoral study in their areas of specialism. Please contact the appropriate supervisor by email.
- Congregational Studies
- Homiletics
- Ministry/Leadership Studies
- Whiteness and Racism in Theology, Church, and Society
- Theology and Practice of Evangelism
- Nonconformist Studies (with special interest in P. T. Forsyth and James McClendon)
- Political Theology
- Negative Theology / Mysticism
- Christian Formation and Discipleship
- Ecclesiology
- Anglicanism
- Feminist Theology
- Liturgy
- Trauma Theology
- Practical Theology
- Eucharistic Theology & Practice
- New Testament (especially Acts, Paul, and the Synoptics)
- Scripture and Violence
- Apocryphal Acts
In addition, we have a number of Associate Supervisors with expertise covering a wide range of fields who can offer postgraduate supervision.
- Christian/gospel rap music
- UK rap music
- Pentecostal spirituality and the Pentecostal movement in the UK
- Qualitative methodologies and social science methods including positionality
- The Apostle Paul
- Circumcision in the Ancient Mediterranean
- Reading the New Testament within Judaism
- Christian theologies of music
- The interaction of religious texts and practice
- The early works of St Augustine
- Music & Liturgy
- New Testament bodies (human, divine, animal)
- Reading the New Testament with interdisciplinary Body Studies, Health Studies, and Disability Studies
- Christian doctrine
- Early and Reformation Church History
- Anglican identity
- Faith and Politics
- The interface between religion and health/social care
- 20th Century Religious Innovation/Non-Traditional Religion
- Psychology and religion
- Social sciences and religion
- Apocalypticism and millenarianism
- War and religion
- Practical Theology
- Pedagogy, Educational Practice and Theological Education
- Ethics and Pastoral Theology (with specialist interest in beginning and end of life)
- Law and Public Theology (specifically medical law)
- Christian Doctrine (especially personhood, sin and salvation)
- Womanist theology
- Practical theology
- Ecclesiology
- Congregational studies
- The portrayal of disability in biblical writings, especially New Testament
- Disability Theology
- Linguistic analysis of ecclesiastical texts
- Positionality and interpretation
- Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- Animals in the Bible
- The Psalms
- The relation between biblical and Canaanite religion
- The sea in the Bible
- Autism and Neurodivergent Theologies
- Disability Theologies
- Charismatic and Pentecostal Theologies
- Feminist Theologies
