Chrissie Thwaites

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Dr Chrissie Thwaites is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow in the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. Her PhD in sociology of religion, also at the University of Leeds, was funded by the AHRC and explored women's experiences of Christianity in Britain. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Exeter. She continues to publish on contemporary Christianity, religion and gender, interdisciplinary approaches in the social sciences, sensitive research and researcher wellbeing.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Visiting Fellow, University of Leeds

Education

  • 2025 
    University of Leeds, PhD
  • 2020 
    University of Exeter, MA Theology and Religion
  • 2018 
    University of Exeter, BA Theology and Ancient History

Publications

  • 2025
    Challenges to conducting sensitive research: purity culture in British Christianity as case study, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions

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