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- Qualifications:BA (Hons), MA, PhD
- Position:Senior Lecturer
- Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
- Telephone:+4411732 87279
- Email:Timothy2.Gibson@uwe.ac.uk
About me
(Revd) Dr Tim Gibson BA (Hons), MA, PhD
I've worked as a journalist and copywriter since my teens, and now run a Somerset-based copywriting and PR agency working for clients including The Daily Telegraph, Volvo Car UK, KPMG, Exmoor National Park Authority, and Connect Group PLC. I've taught in various universities, including Exeter and King's College, London, and have a profile of publications and conference presentations in the fields of ethics, philosophy, theology, culture and politics. I also serve as communications director of John Wainwright & Company Ltd, one of the UK's largest independent quarry and asphalt companies.
I am an Anglican priest, and write about my experiences of parish ministry in rural Somerset, as well as the role of the Church in the 21st century.
Selected Publications
Books:
Imagining the Church: Keeping Faith in a Fragmented World, Currently under peer review
Church and Countryside: Insights from Rural Theology, London: SCM Press Ltd, 2010
Edited/ghostwritten volumes:
TEA (UK Copy Editor), Umschau, 2013
Contributing writer/editor to 125 Years of Quarrying in the Mendips, Wainwright, 2016
Numerous whitepapers on subjects including Brexit, Mobility as a Service (Maas), the rural economy, GDPR, the Public Services Network
Educational materials:
In this season of waiting: a simple course for Advent 2020, Bath & Wells, 2020
Introduction to theological reflection, Exeter & Truro: SWMTC, 2020
Study Skills Guide, The Methodist Church, 2014
Theological Ethics for Christianity Ministry and Mission, STETS, 2013
AS Level Ethics, ICS Distance Learning, 2011
AS Level Philosophy of Religion, ICS Distance Learning, 2011
A Level Ethics, ICS Distance Learning, 2011
A Level Philosophy of Religion, ICS Distance Learning, 2011
Articles/Conference presentations:
'Between knowing and being: reflections on being taught science and religion by Professor Christopher Southgate', forthcoming (Sep 2018) in Zygon, Autumn 2018, Wiley-Blackwell
'Living stories: a theological perspective' - talk on the narrative nature of existence and the role of storytelling in theological discourse, for Bath & Wells Annual Reader Conference, October 2017
'Lukan Poetry: the unity of form and content in Luke's Gospel' Bristol Diocesan Conference, 2015
'Good News for Rural Churches' at Truro Diocesan triannual AMD Clergy College (since 2014)
'A Church with Issues: How Does the Church of England Live with its Teaching about Homosexuality?' in Crucible: The Christian Journal of Social Ethics, July 2013, Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
'Spirituality and the countryside: a rural perspective on Christian formation and the Big Society', in Smith, Alan & Hopkinson, Jill, 2012, Faith and the Future of the Countryside, Norwich: Canterbury Press Ltd, pp 201 – 218
Area of expertise
Copywriting, journalism, content marketing, leadership, communications skills, religion in modern Britain, media/business ethics
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