The podcast of this event is now available here.
Join us for a panel discussion in conjunction with The University of Notre Dame in Australia, on Christ-Centred Leadership Frameworks in Catholic Education led by Maggie Fergusson, the Literary Editor of The Tablet.
Maggie’s distinguished guests will be: Renee Kohler-Ryan, National Head of the School of Philosophy & Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia; Jenny Sinclair, the founder director of Together for the Common Good; Paul Stubbings, a Catholic Head Teacher of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in West London and Raymond Friel, CEO, Caritas Social Action Network.
Thursday 24 February 2022
09.00 GMT, 17.00 AWST or 20.00 AEDT
Ticket price: £12.50
Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: The Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award.
Professor Renee Kohler-Ryan is the National Head of School of Philosophy and Theology of the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has been involved in Catholic education in the USA, Italy (teaching a Philosophy program for Liberal Arts students), Belgium where she studied for her Masters and PhD in Philosophy, and now Australia. She has been at the University for 10 years. Professor Kohler-Ryan is also on the Board of Directors for Mary Aikenhead Educational Ministries, and the Mission, Identity and Formation boards for Sydney Catholic Schools and Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools. She has co-written a curriculum for NSW high school students, in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition; and she has helped to deliver formation for Catholic teachers in the same tradition. Her teaching and research interests are in Philosophy of the Human Person, Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics, with a particular interest in the thought of St. Augustine and of contemporary philosopher William Desmond.
Jenny Sinclair is founder director of Together for the Common Good (T4CG), a charity dedicated to spiritual and civic renewal. Drawing on the wisdom of the Christian traditions and especially from Catholic social thought, T4CG generates resources, holds public conversations and offers training in civic vocation for churches, schools, and for people in positions of civic leadership. Jenny works with many partners, helping people build the common good where they live and work.
Paul Stubbings – a Catholic Head teacher of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in West London
Raymond Friel, CEO, Caritas Social Action Network
Raymond has spent the last 30 years in Catholic education, including 14 years in secondary headship, a spell as General Secretary of the Catholic Independent Schools’ Conference and, in the last four years, being CEO of two Catholic multi academy trusts. He has published a number of books on Catholic education, the Church and spirituality, including The Revolution of Tenderness: Being a Catholic in today’s Church and, with David Wells, At Your Side, a book of original prayers. He is currently working on a book on formation. In April 2021, he took up his new role as CEO of Caritas Social Action Network, an agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales committed to tackling domestic poverty.