Juliette Day Joins Sarum College Academic Staff

In September 2009, Dr Juliette Day joins the academic staff at Sarum College, where she will lead the college’s new master’s degree programme in Christian Liturgy and offer independent research opportunities for liturgy scholars. She also will organise a range of courses for ordained and lay ministers and as well as conferences and workshops in pastoral liturgy.

'Developing a comprehensive liturgical and worship programme at Sarum College is a very exciting venture,” says Day. “Our aim is to promote the renewal of worship in churches by supporting the liturgical ministries of lay and ordained people in their parishes, as well as providing high-quality study and research opportunities with an international reputation in all areas of liturgical studies.”

Day is a senior research fellow in Christian Liturgy at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and formerly lectured in Liturgical Studies at the University of Wales Lampeter.

Joint founding editor of Anaphora, the biannual journal of the Society for Liturgical Study and now Chair of the Society for Liturgical Study, Day is actively involved in the promotion of liturgical studies research nationally.

Day earned her PhD and MA in the History of Christianity at King’s College, University of London and has a Bachelor of Theology degree from Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and the University of Oxford.

“The study of liturgy was one of the founding visions of Sarum College and I am delighted that we can re-establish it as one of the major thrusts of our work as we seek to serve the churches,” says Sarum College Principal, the Revd Canon Keith Lamdin. “Salisbury was the birth place of the Sarum Rite which lies at the heart of all Anglican worship, so to study liturgy here in the Close will be a great privilege.”

The new MA in Christian Liturgy will run alongside Sarum College’s MA in Christian Spirituality, which has flourished since its inception in 1999. Each year the programme welcomes 25 new students from many different Christian traditions and from all over the UK as well as abroad.