Alison is Ludlow Lead Tutor, supporting students who are training for lay and ordained ministry on the Cuddesdon Gloucester and Hereford pathway. She teaches Christian Doctrine, Christian Ethics, and Church History. 

Alison grew up and served her curacy in Hereford Diocese, giving her an insight into ministry in the most rural diocese of the Church of England. Prior to joining Ripon College Cuddesdon she was Interim Tutor at Trinity College Bristol where she taught modules in Christian Doctrine, Black Theology, and Anglican Ecclesiology, as well as being tutor for the part-time students. She brings this teaching and pastoral experience to the role of Ludlow Lead Tutor for CGH.

While curate, Alison completed a PhD in theology with Trinity College Bristol (accredited by the University of Aberdeen) focusing on the work of Willie James Jennings, attending to a theology of race and place. Her research offers an assessment of the Anglican parish in the Church of England, applying the theology of Jennings to discern whether the parish and parish church can be a place of joining and belonging in the face of social exclusion, racism, and territorial claims on the parish. Part of this work was recently published in the journal Studies in Christian Ethics under the title ‘Resisting the Building Project of Whiteness: A Theological Reflection on Land Ownership in the Church of England.’ 

Alison has recently been awarded a research grant from the University of Birmingham as part of a Cross-Training Psychology and Theology Fellowship which hopes to build bridges between the two disciplines. Her project is titled ‘The Role of Place for Human Flourishing: A Critical Engagement between Theology and Psychology.’ Further information can be found here.

In her spare time Alison enjoys attending CrossFit gym classes, reading fiction, walking her Cocker Spaniel Oscar, and sampling the delights of the Bristol food scene with her husband Paul.