Professor William K Kay

After undergraduate studies at Trinity College, Oxford, William worked part time with the University of Reading where he took an MEd and a PhD in comparative education and psychology. Shortly after this he registered at the University of Nottingham and completed a PhD in theology. In 2009 the University of Nottingham conferred a DD on him on the basis of his published works.

He was subsequently Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Theology and Education, Trinity College, Carmarthen; Senior Lecturer in the Department for Education and Professional Studies at King’s College, London; and Director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Bangor University.

He is an ordained minister with British Assemblies of God.

Research interests

• Pentecostal and charismatic theology and history
• Religious education and church schools
• Religious development
• Psychology of religion
• Piagetian psychology.

Recent publications

• Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies
• Religious Development of Young People
• Religious Education and Church Schools
• Miscellaneous chapters in books

Book series editorship

• Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies