Elaine Storkey

Elaine Storkey (born 1 October 1943 in Wakefield) is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian. She is known for her lecturing, writing and broadcasting.

She grew up in Ossett, West Yorkshire, the eldest of three children to James and Anne Lively. In 1968 she married Alan Storkey, an economist, writer and lecturer. They have three sons.

Elaine Storkey was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, doing postgraduate work in philosophy at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada and York University, England. Her first academic post was in philosophy in Oxford. She left to join her husband in the Sociology department at the University of Stirling.

She has authored seven books including "What's Right With Feminism" (ISBN 0-28-104866-5) and "Mary's Story, Mary's Song" (ISBN 0-00-627702-0). She began broadcasting with the BBC in 1986, and has since been involved in many documentaries, arts, news and current affairs programmes. She has been a presenter on Radio 4's Thought for the Today for over 20 years. She has also been a member of the General Synod of the Church of England since 1987. For many years she wrote for The Independentand now regularly writes for the Swedish newspaper Dagen, and for the Church Times.

After many years teaching with the Open University,and presenting radio and television documentaries on gender, race and ethnicity, Elaine Storkey became the Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity in 1991, a post she held until 1999. She also taught with King's College London. In 1997 Elaine Storkey became President of Tearfund, a Christian relief and development charity, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. She has served on many other boards and councils, including the Crown Nominations Commission the environmental agency A Rocha, and as Vice President of the University of Gloucestershire. She is currently Chair of Fulcrum, the Church of England think-tank. She holds a Lambeth DD from Oxford University, and was given an honorary PhD from the University of Gloucestershire

Amidst much publicity in 2008, she took her employer, Wycliffe Hall, to an employment tribunal after twelve members of the academic staff had resigned, critical of the leadership of the college principal, Richard Turnbull, and she had been dismissed. The Hall pleaded guilty to unfair dismissal and was ordered to pay compensation.

Dr Storkey lectures across the world, and is a prominent feminist evangelical and her writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement. She is concerned to highlight the issue of sexual violence, working particularly with women in Africa. She was awarded a life-time award for services to women by the American group CBE in 2008

External links

* [http://www.tearfund.org/About+us/Well-known+friends/Dr+Elaine+Storkey.htm President of Tearfund]
* [http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/content.asp?id=169 Wycliffe Hall, Oxford]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/religion/tftd/queryengine?attrib_1=author&oper_1=eq&val_1_1=Elaine+Storkey&submit=Search+author Elaine Storkey on Thought for the Day]
*Fulcrum Website http://fulcrum-anglican.org.uk

References

* [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/GCF/static/Elaine_Storkey_CV.pdf Independent CV]