Miscellaneous

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland - research travel grant (Palestine/Israel, Germany)

AHRC - Collaborative Doctoral Award with the National Museum of Scotland (World Cultures) (as part of a team, for a project entitled: 'Tibetan collections in Scotland 1890-1930: using material culture to establish a critical historiography of missionary and military intent')

University of Edinburgh - three postgraduate conference grants

Faculty of Arts, University of Edinburgh - 'Small Scholarship Award'

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland - research travel grant (USA)

United Reformed Church, Committee for Inter-Faith Relations (Jewish Fund) - research grant

Miss Elizabeth Drummond Trust, Edinburgh - research grant

The Spalding Trust, Stowmarket, Suffolk - research grant

The Hope Trust, Edinburgh - research grant

Association of Contemporary Church Historians (Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchliche Zeitgeschichtler)

Christians in the Middle East Network

Council for British Research in the Levant

Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO; a EURAMES member)

Ecclesiastical History Society

Ekklesia

Oxford Research Group

Political Studies Association

Yale-Edinburgh Missions History Group

PhD, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Study: Middle East political history; British Empire; British and especially Scottish history; religion in modern Palestine/Israel and the wider Middle East; imperialism and resistance; ideological movements; politics of identity, race, gender and class; postcolonial theory; church and missionary history; missionary theology
Dissertation: Attempting to bring the Gospel Home: Scottish Presbyterian churches' missionary efforts to the Christians, Jews and Muslims of Palestine, 1839-1917

Masters module, Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh
political conflict resolution: Nonviolence: from theory to practice

B.D. II.i, Faculty of Divinity, University of Aberdeen
Also, 1987-8, Theologische Fakultät, Universität Erlangen
Fields of Study: Church History (The Continental Reformers; Wesley and Methodism; Eastern European Churches), Systematic Theology (Philosophical Theology; Spirit, Church and Sacraments; Christian Ethics)
Dissertation (in Church History): Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his resistance to the National Socialist state

I am a Member of the Iona Community.

I chair the Executive Committee of the Scottish Palestinian Forum.

I am not always sure why, but I am (still, just) a member of the Church of Scotland, specifically of London Road Parish Church.