Dr Jenny Leith, Lecturer in Christian Ethics, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Dr Jenny Leith studied for her undergraduate degree in Russian and Italian at Jesus College, Cambridge, before going on to work in politics for several years. This work – as a parliamentary researcher and then in social policy – eventually led her to study theology, in order to think through more deeply the relationship between Christian faith and participation in political life. She began her graduate studies at King’s College London and went on to complete a PhD in political theology at Durham University. This research formed the basis of her monograph, Political Formation: Being Formed by the Spirit in Church and World (SCM Press, 2023). After a postdoctoral research fellowship with the University of Roehampton, she took up a post as Director of Studies at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. In September 2022, she became a Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Westcott House. Along the way she also taught at the Lindisfarne College of Theology, the College of the Resurrection (Mirfield), King’s College London, and Sarum College.