Dr Lisa Curtice – Director

Lisa has responsibility for the running of the Craighead Institute.  She is an accredited pastoral supervisor and is currently in her final year of training for ordained ministry at the Scottish Episcopal Institute. Lisa’s background is as a social scientist with over 30 years’ experience in qualitative research and evaluation, much of it with community-based initiatives.  She has worked at the universities of Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow. From 2001-13 she was Director of the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability where she led the organisation’s inclusive approach.  Until March 2016 she was Programme Director for People Powered Health and Wellbeing at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. She specialises in inclusive research methods and in bringing the views and experiences of people who are marginalised to the attention of policy makers. She has a particular interest in the liberation theology of disability. Lisa seeks to work with creative and participative approaches in all her work.

Lisa is on placement with the Very Rev’d Reuben Preston in the joint charge of St John’s Johnstone and St Margaret’s, Renfrew.  After ordination she hopes to become curate for the Renfrewshire Region of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Ignatian spirituality is very important to her and she finds great joy in encountering God in the everyday.

• Lisa is a member of the Craighead Board. She is a former Associate of the Institute and completed the Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (now Integrating Life and Faith) in 1999.
• At Craighead Lisa leads sessions on reflective practice and provides pastoral supervision.  As a consultant she facilitates participatory action research. She has supported a peer research project with a group of people in Fife who are experiencing unemployment an the congregation of St Ninian’s, Dunfermline in the development of their community links.