The Theology and Action Research Network is co-ordinated by a Steering Committee, made up of theologians, sociologists and action researchers. Brief details of the Committee are given below.
Prof Clare Watkins, Durham University. Network Director. 
One of the original developers of Theological Action Research, Clare is a Lecturer at the University of Roehampton in Ministerial Theology. A Catholic lay theologian, Clare’s work has been in ecclesiology, sacramental theology and the theology of ecclesial practice. She is a former chair of the British and Irish Association for Practical Theology, and a member of the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Group. Clare has recently published a constructive ecclesiology, drawn from empirical research and integrating ecclesial and systematic theological sources. This work – Disclosing Church: an ecclesiology learned from conversations in practice – concludes with a proposal for a ‘whole-theology’ approach which recognises practice as an entirely necessary and traditional element in faith’s seeking of understanding. More details of Clare’s background and publications can be found here.
Dr Helen Cameron
Helen is the Director of Research at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She was Principal Investigator and Co-Leader of Project Violet, a three-year research project looking at the place of women in Baptist ministry which uses theological action research as a vehicle for institutional self-reflection www.projectviolet.org.uk . She is also a Research Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge where she supports the work of doctoral supervisors and leads the Certificate in Enabling Skills for Ministry and Mission Enabling Skills – Wesley House (cam.ac.uk). Her publications can be found here: Helen Cameron (academia.edu).
Dr James Butler
James is Pioneer Mission Training Lead at the Church Mission Society, Oxford. He researches and teaches in the fields of missiology, ecclesiology and practical theology. He has been working in theological action research since 2017. Publications include Christian Faith and Christian Learning, cowritten with Clare Watkins based on a theological action research project into learning in the Methodist Church and contributing to the Theological Action Research Fieldguide. He has been the researcher on a number of theological action research projects including how Methodists and Catholics engage together in social action (Research report: Methodist-Catholic Shared Mission for Justice), the Edgy Learning Project (Edgy Faith and Learning – project report – The Susanna Wesley Foundation), and Holy Communion Online in the Methodist Church (Online Communion – The Susanna Wesley Foundation). He was awarded his PhD from Durham University in 2018 researching how small missional communities sustain their social action.
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Stefanie is a Research Officer of the Susanna Wesley Foundation (SWF) and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College, Oxford and the William Leech Research Fund. She was awarded her PhD in practical theology from the University of St Andrews in spring 2023. As a Research Associate of the SWF she contributed to the publication of the Theological Action Research Field Guide and has recently concluded The Reflecting Together Project, a theological action research project exploring the experiences of loneliness and social isolation in later life.
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