Staff Profile:
Jennie Barnsley, Research Development Officer
Jennie Barnsley joined Edge Hill in January 2004 as PA to the Head of Teaching and Learning Development. A year later she took on the role of Research Development Officer in the CLTR. She is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Centre.
Before moving to the North West, Jennie had a twenty-year career as a Librarian at the University of Wolverhampton, the final five years of which she spent as Head of Systems and Databases. During her Wolverhampton years she also studied Russian as an associate student and, in 1991, spent five months honing her language skills in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (now the State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg).
In 2000 she returned to higher education as a student at Liverpool Hope, graduating in July 2004 with a MA in Theology and Religious Studies with Distinction. She now combines her work in the CLTR with studying for a PhD in Feminist Theology from the University of Birmingham via the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies. Her project is titled "Theologising around the complexities of gender".
Conference papers
- Theologising around the complexities of gender. Identities, Sexualities, Diversities: Annual Conference of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA), Bradford University, 13th July 2006.
- “I am your father and that will never change”: on the insufficiency of Biblical metaphors for the transgender experience. Religion on the Borders: New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, 20th April 2007.
Book Chapters
- Godde and the complexities of gender in Beckett, C., Heathcote, O. and Macey, M. (2007) Negotiating boundaries? identities, sexualities, diversities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars’ Press.