Dr Rayson is Senior Lecturer at the Pacific Theological College with expertise in ecotheology, feminist theology, and Bonhoeffer studies. She has a background in public health and social policy, working in Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Australia’s Northern Territory in health promotion, drug and alcohol, community development, and crime prevention. Her first thesis was an ethnographic study of women and childbirth in PNG. She is an experienced researcher, writer, broadcaster and educator.
Dr Rayson holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Community Health) and Master of Public Health as well as a Master of Theology and a PhD in Theology (University of Newcastle, Australia). She has taught at BBI – The Australian Institute of Theological Education, United Theological College (Charles Sturt University), and University of Newcastle.
Her research is currently in the significance of place, space, and time to theological thinking and the value of indigenous knowledges to public theology.
Her book is Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene (Lexington, 2021). She is Deputy Editor of the Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal and on the editorial board of Teologia Perspectiva. She is an elected member of the International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section.
Dr Rayson is a member of the Anglican Church of Australia where she is a regular preacher and has served on local and national Synod.
