Profile

Robin Gill is Professor of Applied Theology. Previously was the first holder of both the Michael Ramsey Chair at Kent and the William Leech Research Chair at Newcastle. He has published extensively in sociological theology, the sociological study of churches, Christian and religious ethics, and health care ethics. He is Director of the MA in Applied Theology.

Academic Appointments
2011- Professor of Applied Theology, University of Kent.
1992-2011 Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology, University of Kent.
1988-92 William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Theology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1987-8 Senior Lecturer, Department of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh
1985-8 Associate Dean, Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
1972-87 Lecturer, Department of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh
1971-2 Lecturer, Anglican Theological College, Papua New Guinea.

Named Lectureships
1990 John Coffin Memorial Lecture, University of London.
1992 Prideaux Lecturer, University of Exeter
1994 New College Lecture, University of New South Wales
1998 Charles Gore Lecture, Westminster Abbey
2002 Select Preacher, Oxford University

Church Appointments
1997-8 Theological Consultant to the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops
1993-2006 Chair of Archbishop of Canterbury’s Medical Ethics Advisory Group, Lambeth Palace
1992- Honorary Canon, Canterbury Cathedral
1988-99 Member of Archbishop of Canterbury’s Theological Advisory Group, Lambeth Palace

Other Appointments
2009-   Council member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
2003-6 Chair of British Sociological Association’s Study Group of Religion
2001- Member of Medical Research Council’s Stem Cell Steering Committee
1999- Member of BMA Medical Ethics Committee
1996-8 President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics

Research

Publications
Main Books
The Social Context of Theology (Mowbray, Oxford, 1975, pp.150, ISBN 0-264-66290-3)
Theology and Social Structure (Mowbray, Oxford, 1977, pp.153, ISBN 0-264-66463-9)
A Textbook of Christian Ethics (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1985 and revised 1995, pp.600, ISBN 0-567-29280-0),
The Myth of the Empty Church (SPCK, London, 1993, pp.335, ISBN 0-281-04643-3)
Churchgoing and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1999, pp.277, ISBN 0-521-57828-0)
The ‘Empty’ Church Revisited [revised and updated version of The Myth of the Empty Church] (Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, 2003, pp.256, ISBN 0-7546-3463-9)
Health Care and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, pp.229, ISBN 0-521-85723-6)
Sociological Theology (Ashgate forthcoming, 3 Volumes)

Shorter Books and Essay Collections:
Prophecy and Praxis (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, London, 1981, pp.143, ISBN 0-551-00918-7)
The Cross Against the Bomb (Epworth, London, pp.94, ISBN 0-7162-0403-7)
Beyond Decline (SCM Press, London, 1988, pp.146, ISBN 0-334-00097-1)
Competing Convictions (SCM Press, London, 1989, pp.180, ISBN 0-334-01908-7)
Christian Ethics in Secular Worlds (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1991, pp.159, ISBN 0-567-29198-7)
Moral Communities (Exeter University Press, 1992, pp.87, ISBN 0-85989-391-X)
Strategic Church Leadership with Derek Burke (SPCK, London, 1996, pp.96, ISBN 0-281-04901-7)
Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1997, pp.174, ISBN 0-567-08550-3)
Changing Worlds (T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 2002, pp.174, ISBN 0-567-08875-8)
Religious Ethics: The Basics (Routledge, London, forthcoming)

Edited Books:
Theology and Sociology: A Reader (Chapman/Cassell, London, 1987 and revised 1996, pp.516, ISBN 0-304-33839-7)
Readings in Modern Theology (SPCK, London, and Abingdon, USA, 1995, pp.399, ISBN 0-281-04819-3)
Michael Ramsey as Theologian with Lorna Kendall (Darton, Longman and Todd, London and Cowley, Boston, 1995, pp.199, ISBN 0-232-52081-X)
Euthanasia and the Churches (Cassell, London, 1998, pp.136, ISBN 0-304-70352-4)
New Studies in Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, twenty-three monographs since 1992)
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001 [revised edition forthcoming], pp.290, ISBN 0-521-77918-9)
Reflecting Theologically on AIDS (Continuum, London and UNAID, Geneva, 2007, pp.208, ISBN 978-0-334-04002-6)

Teaching

Director of MA in Applied Theology.

Teaches the MA core module Theology and Social Structure and the MA options Topics in Health Care Ethics and Topics in Moral and Pastoral Theology.