Academic credibility and maturity

As a theology student and a practicing NHS Consultant, I bring both intellectual maturity, research experience, and a clear understanding of academic standards. This equips me to engage confidently with senior academics and institutional stakeholders on matters of curriculum, assessment, and quality assurance.

Deep alignment with the Common Awards ethos

The Common Awards framework sits at the intersection of rigorous academic theology and formation for ministry and practice. A theology student is especially well placed to understand and articulate how academic policy decisions affect both scholarly learning and vocational formation.

Ability to represent diverse student voices

The Common Awards community includes students from varied pathways, institutions, and backgrounds. My academic and practical experience and theological training position me to listen carefully, synthesize differing perspectives, and present student concerns clearly and constructively at board level.

Strong communication and ethical reasoning skills

I have excellent critical reflection, ethical reasoning, and respectful dialogue—essential qualities for board-level discussions where sensitive issues, competing priorities, and long-term consequences must be weighed thoughtfully.

Commitment to service and shared governance

Serving as a student representative requires more than advocacy; it requires a commitment to collaborative decision-making and the common good. My academic and theological vocation gives me a strong sense of responsibility, integrity, and service to the wider learning community.

Bridge between students and institution

I am well positioned to translate institutional processes and decisions into clear language for students, while also ensuring that student feedback is communicated to the Board in a nuanced, evidence-based, and solution-focused way.

I am delighted to stand for Common Awards Management Board. I will prioritise active listening and transparency, whilst engaging openly with students, TEIs, and the Common Awards team.

My goal is to make decision-making visibly fair, with diverse voices not only “heard” but genuinely shaping outcomes.

I bring practical experience of institutional change - turning values into workable policy and delivery, whilst negotiating complexity, and building constructive ways forward rather than rehearsing entrenched positions.

My theological commitment is “come as you are”: a wide-tent vision of the Church of England and the breadth of its traditions. TEI education is a rare space of encounter for ordinands, lay ministers, and post-ordination students - together learning to seek Christ in one another, studying rigorously, and being formed for different kinds of ministry.

I am committed to decolonising the curriculum and to theological formation that is attentive to the post-colonial context of the Church, alongside a strong interest in eco-theology.

I also want to ensure LLF-aware inclusion is embedded as culture and practice - calm,
 consistent and compassionate - so that Common Awards forms ministers and leaders capable of faithful ministry in a changing Church.

I am increasingly passionate about the content and quality of theological education and training offered to Ordinands. I served at my previous educational establishment for 2 years as Year Representative (being a voice of students to staff and vice versa), have served on three Church Councils (twice as Secretary), am trained as both a Theologian and a Counsellor so am used to holding nuances and multiple perspectives, and have an interest in improving the quality of pastoral care which encompasses education.

I am a full-time Bristol based ordinand at Trinity College, in my second of three years on the BA program.  Since arriving at Trinity, I have sat on Trinity’s TEI Management Committee; through this experience I have enjoyed being a voice for students within the college, and I would love to represent students' voices on a Common Awards level. I have engaged fully in community life at Trinity and have also enjoyed working with peers to promote healthy habits that support student life and ministry such as running and netball clubs.

Studying with Common Awards has been ideal for my own educational journey. I believe the balance between academic study and ministry development, underpinned by the approach that studying is not an act to be done on its own, but it is formational to our lives has enabled me to apply my learning to practice in a way that I anticipate will prepare me well for future ministry. 

Having an SpLD has led me to have a unique voice within the conversations about academic study, I am passionate about encouraging access and academic attainment for those who previously would have struggled to achieve this level of study and assessment.

I am studying for the MA in Church Law at St. Padarn's Institute. I’m in my second year. I was ordained in the Church in Wales after a long career as a journalist and presenter with BBC World Service. 

I have been tagged as a potential theological educator. As a function of that, I have a real passion for theology as a part of a well-developed devotional and spiritual life. During my time at college, I have been approached by other ordinands for advice and support with their college work, which I have found immensely affirming in my vocation.

During my doctoral study, I was involved with syllabus design and teaching under the guidance of my supervisor. I therefore have some concrete experience of putting together and delivering university courses, including being involved with exam marking. Such was fulfilling work, and I am keen to bring this expertise to bear for the benefit of all Common Awards students.

To be a student representative would allow me to be growing in personal & professional growth, leadership, to deepen my understanding of lay ministry, Faith, being a student voice for LLM students with their own personal & professional growth, leadership, lay ministry, Faith and formation - to be heard in planning and decision making and ultimately grow in their own service.

I value dialogue and communication to what best serves in advancing God's Kingdom, to enhancing and flourishing in their own ministries, churches, communities through a lens of each student, individual is unique and brings value.

Through my experiences of serving people, not only in ministry the last 3 years in my home church and benefice of 5 churches, reading, intercessions, community gift days, festival and events, and running a Health & Well Being studio of at its peak up to 200 people over 6 years delivering Yoga, Pilates, Fitness classes to men, women and children all contributes to serving people to live a quality life.

I feel and believe my people skills are valuable to help support the YTEP Common Awards Committee.

I hope to contribute my skills and further learn, helping students through their own growth whilst being in formation and balancing academic life, by listening to their requests & voices to best help with their serving, believing the position will help with  contributing to their own ministries, churches, communities and home life. 

I am a second year Ordinand at Emmanuel Theological College in preparation for full time stipendiary ministry. I feel it is very important to listen carefully to the experiences of all learners and stakeholders and make careful adaptation to support people to achieve the best possible outcomes. I am a practical person and feel that evidence must be collected in order to best understand the impact of study on the lives of students, positive as well as negative.

Each of us is on our unique faith journeys. We’ve signed up to discover and learn more about God and his works through our Commons Awards programmes. We hope to participate in a creative, engaging, caring and faithful environment to enable us to serve well.

To these ends I would engage with the work of the Common Awards Management Board (CAMB) in its supportive responsibility to our Theological Education Institutes (TEIs) to ensure that our programmes “lead to recognised, high-quality, university-backed awards”; see: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/common-awards/students/framework.

I shall collate feedback and ideas from students into a summary for each CAMB meeting and provide feedback with actions (or non-actions) from the CAMB in a general note through your TEI representative and, where appropriate, to individual students.