ABSTRACT

At the time of the writing of this short article, 2001, there was very little published research into higher education chaplaincy. For example, the paper draws on an unpublished PhD thesis for the opening discussion of three theoretical models of chaplaincy. Although chaplains have been working within universities for a long time, the study and research of this form of chaplaincy was relatively new. Indeed, this paper is based on a very small empirical research project, comprising three interviewees and a survey of a random sample of 133 students. Mark Cartledge was a college chaplain at the time that he co-authored this paper.