Latest updates from around the School
Professor Matthew Novenson
Professor Jolyon Mitchell
Significant departures
Two longstanding members of the New College faculty have moved on to new roles elsewhere. Prof. Matthew Novenson has been appointed Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Prof. Jolyon Mitchell is now Principal of St John’s College, Durham. We thank them both for many years of outstanding service to the school.
Dr Linden Bicket with Pope Francis
Audience with Pope Francis
As part of a group of scholars and artists including the celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese, Dr Linden Bicket was received in a private audience with Pope Francis in May 2023.
Dr Ximeon Xu
Essay prizes
Postdoctoral research fellow Dr Ximian (Simeon) Xu was one of six winners in Stanford University’s AI100 Early Career Essay Competition. PhD student Edward DeLaquil’s essay ‘By what measure? A signpost theory of doctrine’ won the Theology Meets Philosophy essay prize organised by SET Foundations—a programme in science engaged theology hosted by Loyola University Maryland.
Major research grant
Dr James Eglinton has been awarded a grant of £195,000 by the John Templeton Foundation. From 2024-26, he and Dr Thomas Bak (Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Edinburgh) will work on the relationship of bilingualism to theological ethics. Their project is part of a larger project, God, Language and Diversity, which was awarded £1.5 million.
2023 Updates
Principal Jack
Prof. Alison Jack has been inducted as Principal of New College, succeeding Prof.David Fergusson. Her installation was presided over by the Moderator of the Presbytery of Sterling, with our own Prof. Susan Hardman Moore serving as preacher.
AHRC Success
Dr Arkotong Longkumer has received a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a multiple-year project on ‘Decolonising the Museum.’ This award, in excess of £1 million, will explore items taken from Nagaland and now housed in the Pitts Rivers Museum, in Oxford.
Tutor of the Year
Final year PhD student Stephen Dolan won the Student Teacher of the Year at the 2022 EUSA Teaching Awards. This is the second year in a row in which a New College PhD student has won this award.
Science and Theology
Prof. Mark Harris has been elected president of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology—one of the longest-running and most distinguished international scholarly societies for the study of the relationship of the natural sciences and theology.
British Academy Fellowship
Dr Anja Klein has been awarded a £100k Mid-Career Fellowship by the British Academy. This award will enable her to work on ‘Theology born from Crisis: Resilience Discourse in the three Major Prophets.’
Black History
This year’s New College Black History Month Lecture was given by Imam Mustafa Briggs, on ‘Beyond Bilal: Black History in Islam,’ and was jointly sponsored by the School of Divinity, the University of Edinburgh Islamic Society, Race.Ed, and the Edinburgh Race Equality Network.
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