CATHY ROSS

Director of Training and Senior Lecturer in Mission and World Christianity

BA Dip Tchg MA  BD PhD

Cathy comes from Aotearoa/New Zealand where she completed an MA in French and German from Auckland University before studying with her husband at All Nations Christian College in UK. Her PhD is entitled More than Wives and looks at the lives of four CMS missionary wives to Aotearoa in the 19th century. She and her family have worked in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda as mission partners with NZCMS. From 1998 - 2005 she worked at the Bible College of New Zealand as the Director of its School of Global Mission. After that she managed the Crowther Centre for Mission Education at CMS and was the J V Taylor Fellow of Missiology at the University of Oxford. She is currently the General Secretary of the International Association for Mission Studies.

Cathy is interested in supervising research students in missiology - especially in the areas of: theology of mission, contextual theologies, feminist theologies, women in mission, and history of mission. Her current research is looking at hospitality as a metaphor for mission. Geographically her areas of expertise are Africa and the South Pacific.

Cathy is married to Steve, a GP in Oxford and they have three children.  She enjoys tennis, swimming, coffee, travel and watching the All Blacks and the Silver Ferns.

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