John Moss has a first class honours degree in English from the University of Oxford where he also completed his doctorate and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education.

He taught secondary English and Drama for ten years in schools in Oxford and Brighton, finishing his time in school as a Senior Teacher.

He joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 1992 as a Senior Lecturer, teaching courses in English and Education. He became Head of Secondary Education and later Head of Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education before being appointed Dean of Education in 2008, a post which he held for ten years.

The Faculty of Education, which he led, provides a wide range of programmes in teacher education, continuing professional development and the disciplines of education. John promoted innovation in the Faculty's work including its involvement in projects such as Teach First.

John has extensive experience of school and academy trust governance. He is currently Chair of the Diocesan Board of Education for the Canterbury Diocese and is therefore a member for Aquila.

Dr Turner  joined Christ Church in April 2019, after 10 years at Edge Hill University, first as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and then as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Education.

Previous to this, she was Assistant Undergraduate Dean and Director the Combined Honours Centre at Newcastle University and before this Head of the Department of English at Oxford Brookes University.Her research interests are historical anthropology, and ethnographic and postcolonial methodologies.

In her role at CCCU she is responsible for the achievement of the Strategic Framework’s objectives within the Faculty of Education, and (as Interim Dean) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Dr Turner is also Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Bob Bowie (PhD) is Director of the National Institute of Christian Education (https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/nicer/), a research centre at Canterbury Christ Church University that investigates all aspects of Christian Education in including schooling, Christian universities, religious education and faith development. He was Chair of the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education until 2018. He is on the boards of several journals including the British Journal of Religious Education, the Journal of Beliefs and Values and is an editor for the International Journal of Christianity and Education. His own research areas are around religious and human rights education, with a current specific focus on teaching texts in RE classrooms, but he has also written recently on tolerance of religions and morality in values education policy. He supports the Christianity and Education Ed D programme at Canterbury. 

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