Dr Frances Baker RSM is a Senior Lecturer at Catholic Theological College and a religious of the Sisters of Mercy (RSM) and the Academic Dean of Corpus Christi College. She is a member of the Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law and the Department of Systematic Theology. She lectures in Moral Theology and Systematic Theology.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Theology from the University of Divinity, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

She lectured in Moral and Systematic Theology at Australian Catholic University (2000-07). She also taught Christian Ethics, Social Justice, and Bioethics in the United Faculty of Theology whilst a staff member of Jesuit Theological College, Parkville (2001-04), and has extensive experience in Catholic secondary education including religious education co-ordination and twelve years as a school principal.

Her main academic interests are Christian anthropology as a source of moral decision making for the Christian, and the Christian moral conscience and its formation.

University Appointments

Senior Lecturer (Catholic Theological College)