The following academics have availability to supervise research students through the University of Divinity. Find out more about our courses of study.
Caroline Blyth is a researcher, writer, and editor, whose work traces the resonances between biblical texts of terror and contemporary crime narratives (both real and fictional).
Caroline is co-editor of the forthcoming volume T&T Clark Handbook of the Sexualities in the Bible and Its Reception History. Her most recent monograph is The Bible for Normal People: A Guide to Biblical Texts of Terror (2025).
Mark Jennings (he/him) is a sociologist of religion, whose areas of research include Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity; secularisation and post-secularisation; sexuality and discourse; and religion and LGBTQ+ people and issues. Mark also has with expertise in qualitative social research methodologies, including interviewing and ethnography.
Mark sits on the University of Divinity’s School of Graduate
Research Committee. His second monograph, Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of
Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity (Palgrave Macmillan) was
published in 2023.
Before the Law: The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 came into effect in 2022, rendering Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts (SOGICE) illegal in Victoria. The WA government has pledged to draft and enact a similar bill. The Victorian bill and the planned WA legislation were and are the result of the efforts of a group of advocates – academics, activists, and allies led by SOGICE survivors – who perceived the need for a change in the law, and worked to bring this about.
This project involves in-depth interviews with advocates and activists, and represents an important opportunity for us to learn more about how a group of activists work to lead the public discussion on issues related to sexuality and gender, and dealt with opposing positions.
Robert Myles is a biblical scholar whose research foregrounds “history from below” in the study of the New Testament and Christian origins.
Robert currently serves as Executive Editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (De Gruyter Brill), a Q1-ranked publication in Religious Studies and History, and sits on the University of Divinity’s Research Strategy Committee and Research Grants Panel. He is co-author (with James Crossley) of Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict (Zer0 Books, 2023).
Megan (Meg) Warner is an Old Testament/Hebrew Bible scholar, with a background in law, who works particularly in the areas of Pentateuch (with a special focus on Genesis), post-exilic literature, trauma as literary lens and the practical theology of trauma. Meg is Co-Chair of the Genesis Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and a member of the Planning Committee for the Pentateuch Section. She is co-editor with Dr Elizabeth Boase of Sheffield Phoenix’s Trauma Bible Series.
Meg’s recent books include Genesis: A Past for a People in Need of a Future (London: T&T Clark, 2024), Effective Stories: Genesis Through the Lens of Resilience (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2023) and Warner et al, Tragedies and Christian Congregations: The Practical Theology of Trauma (London: Routledge, 2020).
