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Kathleen Openshaw

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Doctor Kathleen Openshaw

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8308-4339

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20142025

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Biography

Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University. Kathleen’s research interests include the lived religious expressions of negatively racialised migrants, material religion and cross-cultural social sustainability in polycrisis contexts. Kathleen was one of the research leads on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia”. She is co-editor (with Rocha and Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (2020). Kathleen is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch, “The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia”, to be published with Rutgers University Press. She has previously held roles as the School of Social Sciences' Diversity and Equity Coordinator (2024 - 2025), and as a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Integrity Committee (2023 - 2025).

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Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Western Sydney University

Research keywords

  • Religion
  • Christianity
  • Pentecostalism
  • Migration
  • Material Religion
  • Race
  • African Diasporas

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  4. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  5. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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