Gale Richards, Ph.D.

BSIR Scholar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent’s Park College, Oxford

BSIR Paper Title

An exploration of Birmingham Baptist
churches’ responses to the arrival of Black
migrant and immigrant populations in
England.

Gale Richards is an ordained Baptist minister and serves at Regent’s Park College Oxford as a
Placement Tutor for Ministerial Formation, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, for the
Centre for Baptist Studies. Gale is currently leading the Birmingham Baptist Churches
exploring their Black History research project. Gale completed her PhD in Divinity at Bristol Baptist College/University of Aberdeen. Her research undertook an (auto) ethnographic study of Black Baptist women leaders that grew out of her coordinating role for the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s BME Women Ministers Network from 2014 – 2020. This study offered corrective insights for the renewal of Baptist church practices in relation to ecclesiology, biblical hermeneutics, missiology, and
theological anthropology. Gale has a strong commitment to ecumenism and is an honorary Ecumenical Canon Emerita at Ely Cathedral.