The BIGBible Project

Dr Bex Lewis

Dr Bex Lewis is a member of the CODEC team, employed half-time by St John’s College, University of Durham, as the “Blended Learning Project Manager” for The Big Bible Project. She is passionate about helping Christians be a positive presence in the digital world… and in July 2011, finished reading the Bible from cover to cover for the first time (took 3 years). She has a background in historical communications – she wrote the history for the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, as part of her PhD ‘British Home Front Propaganda Posters of the Second World War’, completed 2004 at the University of Winchester, where she’d done her first degree in History with Education Studies.

Bex has over 15 years of experience in the digital environment, having built her first website in 1997, and undertaken accessibility and usability projects. She, however, is more interested in people/ communication/ popular culture than programming, and therefore was delighted when social media took off, and she is the Director of ‘Digital Fingerprint’, a social media consultancy, whose clients include the Church of England. Bex has spoken at a number of events, both academic conferences, and at Christian events, and is open to invitations.

As well as a ‘digital resident’, Bex is a polymath, which means that she has multiple interests. She has promoted interdisciplinary research, undertaken the LICC Toolbox course, and written for Damaris Culturewatch. After 7 months travelling around the world (Asia, Australasia, South America), she worked a summer season as a Tour Leader with Oak Hall Expeditions in 2008. She continues to work half-time at the University of Winchester, as a ‘Technology Enhanced Learning Fellow’ (finding tools for teaching using an appropriate mix of technology and face-to-face) with Associate Lectureships in Media Studies (particularly digital literacy) and History, alongside funded projects in student-skills and change management. She gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Teaching Academy in 2011.

Bex can generally be found working on The Big Bible Project at the Premier Radio offices in Pimlico Tuesday/Wednesday.

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Revd. Dr Pete Phillips

Revd. Dr Pete Phillips is Director, Centre for Biblical Literacy and Communication, part of CODEC, based at the University of Durham, and Bex’s line manager. His interests according to Twitter include “living in digital age, digi-discipleship, media/arts, literary theory, postmodernism, Church, Bible”

Pete has a background in Classics and Biblical Studies, and is also a Methodist Minister. Having served in a Methodist Circuit in the Midlands, Pete was New Testament Tutor at Cliff College for thirteen years, also working on his PhD on the Prologue of John’s Gospel from Sheffield University which he gained in 2004. During his time at Cliff, Pete also gained considerable experience in academic administration, focussing especially on links between Cliff and its validating universities. In 2006, Pete gained a MEd in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Teaching Academy in 2007.

Pete’s research areas include Johannine Literature and he co-chairs the Johannine Literature section of the British New Testament Conference. Pete has also given papers at international conferences on John’s Gospel and on postmodern interpretation. Another key research area is in Theology and Contemporary Culture and Pete is now exploring how this can be fused with an exploration of Biblical Literacy in a globalised environment increasingly denuded of its cultural heritage.

Pete now serves Director of Research for the new Centre for Biblical Literacy, which is seeking to map out the terrain for this merging field of enquiry. Passionate about mission, the Bible and teaching, his interests also include postmodernism, theology and arts, film and football. Pete has spoken at a number of Christian festivals including Spring Harvest (Main Event and Le Pas Opton), Summer Fire and Easter People and is open to invitations.

Pete can usually be found in Durham, but, as those who follow on Twitter will be aware, spends significant amounts of time on the train/in London.

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