Jane Leach

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Jane Leach
Principal of Wesley House
Assumed office
September 2011
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Nottingham
Profession Minister and theologian

Jane Leach is a British Methodist minister and academic, who specialises in pastoral theology. Since September 2011, she has served as Principal of Wesley House, a Methodist theological college in Cambridge. [1] She was also President of the Cambridge Theological Federation from 2015 to 2016. [2]

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Early life and education

Leach grew up in the village of River, on the outskirts of Dover, and attended the Dover Grammar School for Girls. Leach has degrees in history and theology. [2] She read history at the University of Oxford. She then trained for ordained ministry at Wesley House, a Methodist theological college in Cambridge, [2] while reading theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She undertook postgraduate research at Nottingham, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1997. [3] [4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The appeal of faith development theory: a sociological perspective". [4]

Career

Ordained ministry

In 1998, Leach was ordained as a presbyter in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. [2] From 1996 to 2001, she was a circuit minister, with her early ministry spent in the Fenland Methodist Circuit. [1] [2] Since joining Wesley House, she has been a minister of the Cambridge Methodist Circuit. [5]

Academic career

In 2001, Leach joined Wesley House, a Methodist theological college in Cambridge, as its Director of Pastoral Studies. [1] In September 2011, she was appointed Principal of Wesley House. [1] For 2015/2016 academic year, she served as President of the Cambridge Theological Federation. [2]

Leach lectures and researches in the area of practical theology and theological education at Wesley House and in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. [1] [2] She is also a Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge, and an associate lecturer of the University of Cambridge. [3]

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  5. "Ministers". Cambridge Methodist Circuit. Retrieved 17 January 2017.