Dianne Rayson

Dr Dianne Rayson is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theological College, Fiji and formerly taught at The University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University, Australia. With a Master of Public Health, she has worked in health policy and planning, community development, and crime prevention in Australia's Northern Territory and in Papua New Guinea. She completed her PhD at Newcastle in 2017, supervised by Terence J. Lovat, focussed on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in...See more

Dr Dianne Rayson is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theological College, Fiji and formerly taught at The University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University, Australia. With a Master of Public Health, she has worked in health policy and planning, community development, and crime prevention in Australia's Northern Territory and in Papua New Guinea. She completed her PhD at Newcastle in 2017, supervised by Terence J. Lovat, focussed on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in application to the issue of the climate crisis. She has published a book (Lexington Press) on this research, journal articles and book chapters, and provided national and international conference presentations on this and other contemporary issues. She is a climate change activist who believes that theology has a part to play in addressing the world's ecological challenges in the Anthropocene. See less