Tutor

Anne.Phillips@Northern.org.uk
+44 (0)161 249 2513

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 to become the Full-time Tutor with special responsibility for the Network. As the regional work has grown and the College has become more intentionally a regional resource for theological learning at many levels, her role has changed and its title is now Tutor with Special Responsibility for Regional Work. She also oversees the probationary period for Newly Accredited Ministers attached to the College, and teaches Christian Education and Faith Development on the Faith in Living course, adding to her existing teaching on the Foundation module and in Pastoral Care.

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 the Baptist Joint Colleges Consultative Committee and now sits on the national Ministerial Recognition Committee.

Anne is also undertaking part-time doctoral research into the spiritual development of girls in early adolescence in Baptist churches.
Her wider interests include: country walking, listening to music, and talking with her son and daughter.

Publications (under her former name of Anne Dunkley)