Revd Ali Hogger Gadsby is St Mellitus College, National Safeguarding officer. She is also Tutor and Lecturer in Pastoral Ministry and Tuesday host at St Mellitus East Midlands. She has a background in journalism, mental health nursing, school chaplaincy and parish ministry.

As a former Mental Health Nurse, Ali is interested in how we understand mental health theologically, and how that understanding can transform our churches. She is married with three children and is a reluctant runner.

• BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Wales, 1993
• Registered Mental Health Nurse, The Nightingale Institute, Kings College London, 2000BA (Hons)
• Theology, Ministry, and Mission, St Mellitus College, 2013
• MA Theology, Ministry and Mission, Durham University, 2021

• Mental health and ill health
• Clergy wellbeing
• Pastoral theology and ministry
• Formation
• Theology of safeguarding
• Use of self in ordained ministry