Alison Webster
Alison is a writer, educator and facilitator, focusing on themes of spirituality and social transformation. She is author of numerous resource books that draw together social action and contemplation. She has a longstanding interest in identity issues – particularly gender, race, sexuality and disability, and is author of books on gender, sexuality, health and wellbeing.  Alison has worked for the Student Christian Movement, the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality and the Christian Socialist Movement. Most recently (from 2003), she worked as Deputy Director of Mission for the Diocese of Oxford (Social Responsibility), and prior to that was Social Responsibility Adviser for the Diocese of Worcester. Her most recent book is ‘Found Out: Transgressive Faith and Sexuality’ (DLT 2017). Alison is Chair of the Malvern-based charity Amaka Beautiful Child (ABC), www.amaka.org, empowering people through story-telling and the arts. She is also author of ‘Found Wanting: Women, Christianity and Sexuality’ (Cassell 1995), ‘Wellbeing’ (SCM Press, 2002) and ‘You Are Mine: Reflections on Who We Are’ (SPCK, 2009). She is the founder editor of two international journals, ‘Theology and Sexuality’ and ‘Political Theology’. Alison is currently Mission Theologian in Residence at Citizens UK.

Dr Keith Hebden
Dr Keith Hebden is a writer on Practical Theology and a Community Organiser working with Thames Valley Citizens and the author of ‘Re-Enchanting The Activist: Spirituality and Social Change’ He lives in Oxfordshire where his wife Sophie works in climate science and his two children engage in their own forms of social struggle and negotiation.

Revd Dr Susanna Snyder
Susie is Academic Dean and teaches Christian Ethics, Practical Theology, and Social Justice and Community Engagement. Susie was involved in accompanying people seeking asylum for many years in the UK and US—including those in immigration detention facilities—and she is currently helping to organise a grassroots edible growing project in her local community. 

She holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge (MA) and Birmingham (BATS, PhD), and trained for ordination at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham. She is an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion and an Associate of the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought at the University of Oxford.