ABSTRACT
During the period under review in this volume the development of a professional doctorate in Practical Theology in several collaborating Universities in the UK (it goes under slightly different names in each institution – DProf/DPT etc.) has emerged as an important driver of the development of the field. Designed particularly for reflective and reflexive practitioners it has broken new ground and enabled more of the totality of human lived experience to come under the practical theological research ‘microscope’. This article we think is a good example of a doctoral researcher publishing a part of their work in order to place their new thinking ‘out there’ in public and challenge others to take up their interests. Such publishing is important if the individual doctoral researcher is to become part of a ‘community of practice’ and affect the whole.
