Postgraduate research students

My research is looking at blame-shifting in the Hebrew Bible and its influence and parallels to victim-blaming in our own culture and society.

• Dr Sarah Nicholson
• Dr Mia Spiro

• "Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women's Fear." Scottish Universities Biblical Studies and TRS Postgraduate Research Workshop, University of Glasgow, June 4th 2025.
• "God as Mother-Bear." Humanimal 2.0: The Bible & 'Animal' Others, University of Edinburgh, March 7th 2025.
• "Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women's Fear." College of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Conference: Space[s], University of Glasgow, June 14th 2024.
• "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Blame-shifting in Genesis 3 and Beyond." Scottish Universities Biblical Studies Postgraduate Day Conference, University of Edinburgh, June 5th 2023.
• "Blame-shifting in the Book of Job and the Climate Crisis." Interruptions - Theological Responses to Suffering, Crisis, and Death: The Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (SSCE) Postgraduate Conference, University of Oxford, March 11th 2022.
• "She gave me fruit from the tree and I ate: Genesis 3 and a victim-blaming culture in the Hebrew Bible." Scottish Theology and Religious Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Glasgow, June 8th 2021.
• "I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs and will tear open the covering of their heart (Hos. 13:8): God as Mother-Bear." Women and God: Logia Postgraduate Conference, University of St Andrews, May 27th 2021.
• "The obligation to reproduce (?): Reproductive 'rights' in the Bible." Divine Bodies Conference, University of Glasgow, April 1st 2021.
• "The parallel between Genesis 3:16 and the 'Good Wife' of Proverbs 31:10-31." Women and Gender in the Bible and the Ancient World Conference, University of Glasgow, March 29th 2019.

Invited Talks:

• "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy." Biblical Studies Research Seminar, University of Glasgow, February 27th 2025.
• "Blame-Shifting and Genesis 3." Biblical Interpretation and Theology Seminar, University of Glasgow, April 27th 2023.
• "Geography of Women's Fear." Business Data Partners (BDP) Women's Network, Edinburgh, June 1st 2022.

TRS1006 Creation to Apocalypse

TRS1007 The God Question

TRS1005 + TRS4061 Biblical Hebrew

TRS4060 + TRS3025 Bible, Literature and Culture

TRS4062/3 + TRS3026 Genesis

TRS4112 Women and Gender in the Bible and the Ancient World

• Coordinater of FemBible (a feminist bible reading group), January 2022 - present.
• Co-organiser of the Divine Bodies Conference, University of Glasgow, April 1st 2021.
• eSharp editorial commitee, December 2023 - present.