Stewart Gill
University of Melbourne
Convening Panel
Affiliations
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Formerly Master of Queen’s College, the University of Melbourne
Former Principal of Emmanuel College and founder and former Director of the Emmanuel Centre for the Study of Science, Religion and Society, University of Queensland, Australia
Biography
Professor Stewart Gill is the eighth Master of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne. Professor Gill has a distinguished record of leadership and management in residential colleges. He has been Principal of Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland since 2005. He is also founder and director of the Emmanuel Centre for the Study of Science, Religion and Society, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. He previously held positions with the Melbourne residential colleges as Warden of Ridley College and Deputy Warden of Trinity College.
Scottish by birth, Professor Gill graduated with an honours Master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh. He continued his studies in Canada, earning a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Guelph. He is a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, London. His published historical studies span Canada, Scotland and Australia.
GFI Writings
Stewart Gill
University of Melbourne
Love Within the Context of a Residential Academic Community.
Professor O’Donovan’s work speaks to me in the context of being the Master of an academic residential collegiate community at the University of Melbourne founded by the Methodist Church and still associated with the wider Christian community through its affiliation with the Uniting Church in Austral…
Stewart Gill
University of Melbourne
Voices from the Fringe: University Colleges for Christian Vision
As I read Nigel Biggar’s brief on “Order” a couple of areas are of interest and speak to me of the work that I have been doing over the last few years in collegiate education as Principal of Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland and Master of Queen’s College within the University of Melbo…
Stewart Gill
University of Melbourne
How Do I Model Christian Virtues to My Staff and Students?
The short article on virtues resonates with me as I head up a Residential University College where our mission is to provide pastorally sensitive academic support for our students. Personally, the paper challenges me to think how I model Christian virtues to my staff and students and how I can call …
Stewart Gill
University of Melbourne
There Is No Place for Ego in Christian Scholarly Dialogue
I respond to two valuable insights in Professor Biggar’s Preview on Created Order. On faith and international relations While many critics have argued that the world is becoming increasingly secular yet, in many of the major conflict zones in the world, religion is at the centre. As the West suppose…