CRES Steering Group
John Neal is a farmer from Warmington, near Banbury, and is a Methodist lay preacher. (Chair and Treasurer of CRES)
Dr Martin Hodson is Visiting Researcher in Environmental Biology, Oxford Brookes University, UK, having been on the staff since 1989. His research interests include plant mineral relations, archaeology and palaeoecology. Martin has been involved in issues of faith and environment since 1990, and with his wife, Margot, is joint author of ’Cherishing the Earth, how to care for God’s Creation’ (2008, Oxford: Monarch). He is now Operations Manager for JRI and is working with the Agriculture and Theology Project (ATP). (Principal Tutor)
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Rev. Philip Wagstaff is a Methodist minister who has worked in three rural circuits in Norfolk, North East Essex and Devon over the past 19 years. (Senior Tutor of the Certificate)
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Rev. Dr. John Reader is Rector of the Ironstone Benefice (8 rural churches in North Oxfordshire) having served most of his ordained ministry in rural parishes. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the William Temple Foundation where he is involved with the Religious Futures Network, responding to the theological questions raised by the global financial crisis. A Practical Theologian, he has published books on Local Theology, Blurred Encounters and Reconstructing Practical Theology in the light of globalisation. (Senior Tutor of the Diploma)a
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Dr. John Lockwood is retired from the University of Leeds, where he taught climatology as a Senior Lecturer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Climatology, and also on grant awarding committees of the Natural Environment Research Council. His latest publication is Chapter 1 The climate of the Earth, in Atmospheric Science for Environmental Scientists edited by C. N. Hewitt and A. V. Jackson 2009, Wiley-Blackwell. He is an Associate of the John Ray Initiative, has acted as an advisor to Tearfund, and is a member of South Parade Baptist Church, Leeds.
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Lizzie Rushton is a postgraduate student at Nottingham University, where she is researching the environmental history of Belize using palaeoecological and archival records. She has undertaken research into the environmental attitudes of residential ordinands with Dr Martin Hodson and is a founder member of the Green Apostles Project, an environmental outreach programme in the Diocese of Lincoln.
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Rev. Dr. Andrew Teal is a tutor at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and is Chaplain at Pembroke College, Oxford. (Ripon College Cuddesdon representative)