Professor Nicola Slee

Bio:

Nicola Slee is Professor of Feminist Practical Theology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Until recently, she was Director of Research at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, and continues to supervise a dozen PhD students at Queen’s/VU, while dropping her larger role and resuming a freelance portfolio of writing, speaking, spiritual direction and leading retreats. She has published widely in the fields of feminist and practical theology, prayer and spirituality and poetics, and is well known as an international scholar and practitioner in these fields.

Her most recent publications are Abba Amma: Improvisations on the Lord’s Prayer (Canterbury Press, 2022) and Fragments for Fractured Times: What Feminist Practical Theology Brings to the Table (SCM, 2020), and she has also contributed to From the Shores of Silence: Conversations in Feminist Practical Theology, edited by Ashley Cocksworth, Rachel Starr and Stephen Burns (SCM, 2023). She is currently hatching a number of different writing projects and wondering which one is going to surface first!