Dr Bridget Nichols is Lay Chaplain and Research Assistant to the
Bishop of Ely, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway. She grew up in South
Africa, in one of the former gold-mining towns east of
Johannesburg, and attended university in Cape Town, to study
English and Classics. She returned to Johannesburg, and completed
an MA in English at Witwatersrand University. She then travelled to
England, and came to the Centre for the Study of Literature,
Theology and the Arts, at the University of Durham, with a plan to
write on Prayer Book collects. The subject expanded, and her
doctoral research was published as Liturgical Hermeneutics:
Interpreting liturgical rites in performance (Peter Lang,
1996).
She is also the author of Liturgy in Christian
Perspective (DLT, 2000), and edited and contributed to The
Collect in the Churches of the Reformation (SCM, 2010).
She acts as Reviews Editor for the Society for Liturgical
Study's journal, Anaphora. Since 2011, she has been a
member of the Liturgical Commission, and, since 2012, a member of
the Academic Board of the Archbishop's Examination in Theology.