Christian Ethics and Research Methods

Academic Staff
Revd Dr Buki Fatona

Christian Ethics and Research Methods

Buki is Tutor in Christian Ethics as well as Director of Postgraduate Programme. She also teaches Research and Reflection: Resources and Methods and convenes the Dissertation module for the Common Awards MA in Theology, Ministry, and Mission.

Buki has a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Science and Religion from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research brought together her degrees in Microbiology (BSc); Theology (BA); and Epistemology, Ethics, and Philosophy of Mind (MSc). After her DPhil, she remains a member of the Common Room at Wolfson College Oxford. 

She is part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, conducting research in philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and religion.  She has a keen interest in memory and imagination and how these cognitive abilities interact with, motivate, and give rise to an agent's actions. She is on the Faculty's Tuition List tutoring the following papers at various Oxford colleges, Ethics I: Christian Moral Reasoning; Science and Religion; Further Studies in Science and Religion; Philosophy of Religion. Also, at the University of Oxford, she is an associate of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion; a member of the Ancient World Research Cluster; and a member of the Centre for Philosophical Theology. 

Buki started training for ordination at Wycliffe Hall Oxford a year after commencing her doctoral research. During this time, she served as Assistant Chaplain at Magdalen College Oxford. After her training, she served a curacy in the Diocese of London. Subsequently, Buki is Rector of St Mary the Virgin Weston Turville: an inclusive, Anglo-Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Oxford.

She despises, speaks out against, and tries to mitigate societal injustices particularly in relation to unjustly minoritised groups. She was co-President of the Feminist Society at Wolfson College Oxford. As a representative on the Faculty’s Equality and Diversity committee, Buki helped organise University of Oxford’s inaugural Women in Theology colloquium, celebrating the invaluable and continued contributions of women to the study of theology and religion. At Cuddesdon, she runs a UKME group for ordinands.

In her spare time, she enjoys cardio, yoga, music, sewing, and is passionate about art (especially abstraction).