Current researchers

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce is Tutor in Social and Environmental Justice at London Jesuit Centre. He received his PhD from the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He is the author of two monographs: Jewish Christians in Puritan England (Wipf and Stock, 2020) and Israelism in Modern Britain (Routledge, 2021).

 

He has published articles in a range of ​scholarly journals including: The Seventeenth Century, The Journal of Victorian Culture, Biblical Theology Bulletin, The Journal of British Catholic History, The Journal of Religious History and Correspondences. He is currently editing a volume of essays on the subject of British-Israelism. He is also working on a research project concerning the emergence of New Thought and the Law of Attraction in the late nineteenth-century. 

Stuart Jesson is Theology Lead at London Jesuit Centre, and has a PhD in Philosophical Theology from the University of Nottingham. He has published articles on theodicy, forgiveness, the thought of Simone Weil and Friedrich Nietzsche.

 

​He is responsible for the annual Heythrop Institute Workshop, which aim to explore topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology. 

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He is currently exploring the significance of the work of Stephen Darwall for theological ethics, focusing on the significance of resentment for Christian accounts of 'being with'. 

Vanessa is interested in the interdisciplinary field of religious law and medical law, and ethics. She is developing The Centre for Cultural and Religious Literacy, which will establish a network of legal and medical professionals and authoritative representatives from cultural and religious minority communities to enable mutual understanding and trust in a medical setting.

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She has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, in which she researched the interaction between law, bioethics, and society in the Middle East to understand Jewish and Islamic approaches to fertility treatments and human germline genome editing.

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She is Tutor in Religion and Ethics for the University of London, and recently completing a further MA in Medical Ethics and Law at King’s College London, asking in her dissertation how greater religious literacy can aid the court of protection in best interests decisions.

Nicolete Burbach is the Social and Environmental Justice Lead at London Jesuit Centre. Her research focuses on helping the Church to navigate its difficult encounter with transness, with a particular interest in how the teachings of Pope Francis might be resourced to do so, as well as trans and trans liberation theology.

 

She is the author of many articles in theological journals, editor of a special issue of The Heythrop Journal on ‘The Church and Gender Theory’, and, with Lisa Sowle Cahill, editor the volume Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today, published by Bloomsbury.