Academic Bio:

Tina Beattie left her post as Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of  Roehampton in London in 2020 and now works as an independent researcher and writer. She has researched and published extensively on sacramentality, desire, embodiment and gender, engaging with psychoanalytic theory and art history as well as theology in her research. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her publications include Blood, Sex and B irth: towards a Sacramental Symbolics (CUP, forthcoming); Theology After Postmodernity: Divining the Void (OUP 2013); The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion (DLT 2008); New Catholic Feminism: Theology and Theory (Routledge, 2006); God's Mother, Eve's Advocate: A Marian Narrative of Women's Salvation (Continuum, 2002). In addition to her academic publications, Tina is a published novelist and a regular contributor to the media, including BBC Radio 4's "Thought for the Day".

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Tina works with academic and educational groups and projects to promote the role of women in church and society. She has recently taken on the role of President of the Sophia Institute based in Namibia, which offers in-person and online courses in leadership, pastoral formation and theology for women religious in sub-Saharan Africa. She is responsible for developing the theology curriculum, and teaches a one-year online course on "Introduction to Theology", in the context of African cultures and theologies.

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