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About Us Faculty & Staff William Kay
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MA (Oxon) MEd PhD (Reading) PhD DD (Nottingham)  After completing a degree at the University of Oxford in the 1960s, William entered the world of education and completed an MEd and a PhD in Comparative Education at the University of Reading in 1977 and 1981 respectively. He worked first as a teacher, and then head of religious education, in comprehensive schools in the Basingstoke area in the 1970s before being appointed as a full-time researcher at the University of Southampton 1980-84, where he also taught on the MA in research methods, before coming to Mattersey Hall where he taught full-time for ten years.In 1989, he completed a PhD in theology at the University of Nottingham on the history of British Assemblies of God (published as Inside Story) and in 1994 he moved as Senior Research Fellow to Trinity College, Carmarthen, part of the University of Wales, before dividing his time in 2001 between directing the MA in religious education programme at King’s College London, and establishing a Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor. In 2004, he decided to devote all his energies to the Centre and is now full time at the University of Wales, Bangor, where liaison with Mattersey Hall and supervision of our research students and graduate programmes is high on his list of priorities. He is the author of numerous books and articles, with recent productions including Pentecostals in Britain (2000), A Reader in Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies (2004), and Apostlic Networks (2007), and has successfully combined his academic career with active responsibility in church leadership for many years. William is married to Anthea and they have two grown-up sons, Matthew and Samuel. |