Dr Kathleen Openshaw has a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Development Studies (Maynooth University, Ireland) and a PhD from the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University (Australia). Kathleen’s main research interests are Pentecostalisms from the Global South, local lived migrant religious expressions of globalised Pentecostalisms and material religion. Her PhD research was an ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia. She is the Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). She is also co-editor (with C. Rocha and M. Hutchinson) of Australasian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).

Kathleen has tutored across multiple units (with a focus on Anthropology, Sociology and Religion) at Western Sydney University. She has presented her research at both national and international conferences and has collaborated with established senior scholars on both academic and community-focused projects.