Mandy Robbins

Dr Mandy Robbins

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Department of Psychology, School of Social and Life Sciences,
Wrexham Glyndŵr University, United Kingdom

Professor Mandy Robbins gained her first degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1992 in Theology and Archaeology, her MPhil in Theology at Trinity College, Carmarthen in 1996, and her PhD in the Psychology of Religion at the University of Wales, Bangor in 2002.

In 2005 she completed a post-graduate diploma with the Open University in Psychology.In 2011 she obtained Chartered status with the BPS.Mandy is also qualified as an MBTI practitioner.She worked as a junior research fellow at Trinity College, Carmarthen 1995-1999.

From there she moved to the University of Wales, Bangor as teaching and research Fellow 1999-2007.In 2007 she moved to the University of Warwick as senior research fellow before moving in 2011 to Glyndŵr University as senior lecturer.

A generation of change – Thirty years of women in the Church of England: A study in the Psychology of Religion

Abstract

In 1987 the first cohort of women were ordained as Deacon’s in the Church of England. Their ordination represented a radical and historic change in the nature and experience of ministry for the English Church. In 1994 the Church enacted legislation that admitted women to the priesthood. Over the course of this time two surveys of the clergywomen (n = 1,239 and n= 2,055) and one qualitative study (n=21) enable a detailed understanding of this remarkable group of women. Using the lense of the psychology of religion this presentation will present findings from all three studies and ask how effective this has been for furthering our understanding of women in ministry.