Dr Harris took up her post as Principal on 1st January 2026. She was formerly the University Chaplain and Head of Chaplaincy Services at the University of Edinburgh since 2010. There she took the Chaplaincy staffing from 3.5 to a team of 9 staff and over 40 Honorary Chaplains and Volunteer Listeners of diverse faiths and traditions, hereby creating the largest multi-faith and belief chaplaincy in the UK, serving a highly international campus of 65,000 staff, students and faculty. For this work she is sought internationally for consultancy, and was awarded an MBE, and also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dr Harris has taught Theology at Oxford, Exeter and Edinburgh Universities. She has trained ordinands for the Scottish Episcopal Institute and for SWMTC, and Lay Readers for Oxford Diocese. She holds a DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford, and has served two terms as Convenor of the Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and two terms on the Faith and Order Advisory Board of the Church of England. She has strong experience in training and coaching leaders across the churches, in multi-faith and belief contexts, and in universities, the NHS, Scottish Government, and creative industries. She is known internationally as a speaker and preacher.

Ordained in the Diocese of Oxford, where she served as Assistant Curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford, and for ten years as Chaplain of Wadham College, Dr Harris’s appointment at Cuddesdon marks a joyful return to her home diocese.