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Dr Cath McKinney

BEd, MAppSci, GradDipTh, PhD

HDR Supervisor Course Advisor

Cath is the Professional Supervision Program Director at the University of Divinity. She has extensive experience as a group relations consultant where she specialises in helping people to flourish as they take up their roles.

Cath graduated with her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Divinity (through Pilgrim Theological College) in 2020. Her thesis, entitled Leading Saturday Lives is centred around the experience of disappointment as central to an authentic understanding of a Christian theology – from Mary as bereaved mother to the presence of the absence of God in the disappointment of Holy Saturday. Her research was stirred by her work as a prison chaplain and as a minister in an inner-city community church for many years.

Cath specialises in teaching Professional Supervision, Practical Theology and Ministry Studies, Leadership and Group Relations.

University Appointments

    Director of Professional Supervision Program (Whitley College)
    Associate Teacher (Pilgrim Theological College)

Teaching disciplines

Pastoral Theology and Ministry Studies; Spiritual Direction

Recent Publications

All publications
2025 Tending and Befriending: Reframing Solidarity as Relational Praxis
2025 Knowing and Not Knowing: The Pursuit of Certainty as a Resistance to Good Work.
2025 Towards Mature Ethical Praxis: Developing Spiritual and Theological Fluency in Professional Supervision
2024 Discontent in a Hybrid Workplace
2023 The Authorised Soul: Integrated Supervisory Practice as Hospitable Stance.

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