Ms Naomi Jacobs
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Job title: Associate Lecturer
Email: n.jacobs@derby.ac.uk
Recent publications
Book Review: Ageing, disability and spirituality: addressing the challenge of disability in later life. Disability and Society, 25(4), 513-7.
Book Review: A theological diagnosis: a new direction on genetic therapy, 'disability' and the ethics of healing. Disability and Society, 27(1), 151-2.
Experience in Industry
I taught in the post-compulsory FE sector for five years.
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Education
Subject Area: Social Science
I teach on various Social Studies courses as part of the Centre for Society, Religion and Belief. I am currently undertaking a PhD in Sociology and Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Teaching responsibilities
Research interests
Disability, religion, gender, the Bible
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
British Sociological Association
Society of Biblical Literature
Recent Conferences
Jesus, Disability and the Gospel Healing Narratives: Enabling Access or Erasing Identity? 2nd Derby Symposium on Social Scientific and Cultural Studies Approaches to Biblical Studies, 9th June 2011, University of Derby.
Transgressive Textual Practice: Jesus and the Haemorrhaging Woman. Postgraduate Disability Research: A Critical Space to Engage - Interdisciplinary Disability Research Conference, 13th July 2011, University of Warwick.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA English Literature, University of Cardiff
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA Disability Studies, University of Leeds
- PGCE Post-Compulsory Education, Institute of Education, University of London
- MA English Literature, University of Cardiff
