After working as a Research Assistant at the Culham College Institute for Church-Related Education (in Oxfordshire) and then as Professional Assistant for the London Diocesan Board for Schools, Judith spent over 20 years in the central administration of the University of Oxford, where she was an Assistant Registrar. She took early retirement from Oxford in 2008, and then fulfilled a long-held desire to pursue a PhD. Her doctoral study of the religious social capital of cathedral Friends associations was supervised at York St John University by Dr Andrew Village and Dr Ann Christie. As a postgraduate student, she won the British Sociological Association Peter B. Clarke Memorial Prize in 2012, with an essay on Anglican cathedrals and vicarious religion. She now holds a Postdoctoral Research Assistantship, on a project evaluating a ministerial development initiative for clergy and parishes in the Diocese of Truro. Judith is also a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Education & Theology, at York St John University.