Anne Phillips studied Theology at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and after a period teaching in Ghana took her Postgraduate Certificate in Education at King’s College, London. She then followed a teaching career, specialising in Religious Studies at secondary level, in Wakefield, Dunstable and Nottingham. This was punctuated by parenting.

In 1990, she was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and spent four years in pastorate in Nottingham. Meanwhile she was combining her experience of education, of children and of ministry by researching and writing on children’s issues (see publications) both alone and collaboratively.

In 1995, she joined the staff of Northern Baptist College as the part-time Community Learning Network Key Worker in the Midlands, creating learning programmes in churches and ecumenical settings. In 1999, she moved to Manchester as full-time tutor, which involved, in addition to teaching and tutoring ministerial students, taking on responsibility for the regional work as the College became more intentionally a regional resource for theological learning at many levels. In the reorganisation of 2009, she became Co-Principal, alongside Richard Kidd, of Northern Baptist Learning Community, retaining oversight of the regional work.

She teaches in the areas of adult learning, Christian education, theological reflection and pastoral care on both the Faith in Living course and the new Foundation degree. She also oversees the probationary period for Newly Accredited Ministers attached to the College.

She has had long involvement with the BU on both children’s and women’s issues, and was responsible for the writing and promotion of the Baptist Union’s Child Protection Policy guidelines, “Safe to Grow”. She is a member of Baptist Union Council, the Baptist Joint Colleges Consultative Committee and the national Ministerial Recognition Committee. She is also rooted in a local church - Union Chapel, Fallowfield.

Anne has recently gained her PhD from Manchester University for her thesis entitled:

Girls in Transition: the spirituality and faith of girls 11-13 in Baptist churches.

She is currently exploring possibilities for publication of her work.

Her wider interests include: avid reading, country walking, listening to music, and spending precious time with her grown up and increasing family.

Publications (under her former name of Anne Dunkley)

Getting Across

NCEC, 1995

Upside Down World

NCEC, 1996

Seen and Heard, – Whitley Lecture 1999/2000

Whitley Publications 1999

Contributed to:

Working with children in the church,

NCEC, 1988

Kaleidoscope, The Churches together in training,

NCEC 1993

See also Anne's page on the Northern Baptist Learning Community website:

http://northernbc.wordpress.com/about/staff/anne-phillips/