Meet the Team
A little introduction to our work below, but we are also happy for you to get in touch and ask us more about what we do. There is a contact form at the bottom of the page, so by all means drop us a note.
The Curator
Dr Matthew Barber_Rowell is the Founder of Spaces of Hope. Matthew has spent the last 10 years building Spaces of Hope, combining his personal story with professional practice, to understand more about how we shape the environments we live in, through the things that we believe in and value most.
Matthew is a Temple Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Master of Environmental Politics. Matthew's work has been in urban contexts, engaging in issues of environmental sustainability, social action projects and applying grounded and assemblage theories, to produce interventions that combat health inequalities. Matthew specialises in gathering stories, surfacing motivations, beliefs, values and worldviews and contextualising their role in shaping spaces, places and the wider environment. Matthew has consolidated Spaces of Hope through the production of his PhD thesis synthesising a movement, gatherings, networks and spaces of faith based engagement in urban contexts, to produce a pedagogy and a new model for Faith based Organisation.
Space of Hope offers a new means of mapping and coproducing shared assets, alliances, values and practices within liminal contexts. In 2018 Matthew’s work was included in the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in England, as a pioneering approach to bridge building and peace brokering. During 2019, Matthew was awarded a Temple Scholarship, for ‘ground breaking work ... around partnership and policy formation’ and contributed to the Church of England and Church in Wales Social Responsibility Network Annual Conference, using Spaces of Hope as a lens through which to see ‘Church on the High Street’. During 2020, Matthew has submitted his PhD thesis and supported research, along with colleagues from the Faith and Civil Societies Unit at Goldsmiths, looking at Covid response by FBOs and Local Authorities nationally, for the APPG for Faith and Society. Matthew is currently undertaking work, scoping the potential role of emergent shared values and local leadership in post Covid contexts and the significance for our environment over the next 10 years.
Matthew is a Temple Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Master of Environmental Politics. Matthew's work has been in urban contexts, engaging in issues of environmental sustainability, social action projects and applying grounded and assemblage theories, to produce interventions that combat health inequalities. Matthew specialises in gathering stories, surfacing motivations, beliefs, values and worldviews and contextualising their role in shaping spaces, places and the wider environment. Matthew has consolidated Spaces of Hope through the production of his PhD thesis synthesising a movement, gatherings, networks and spaces of faith based engagement in urban contexts, to produce a pedagogy and a new model for Faith based Organisation.
Space of Hope offers a new means of mapping and coproducing shared assets, alliances, values and practices within liminal contexts. In 2018 Matthew’s work was included in the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in England, as a pioneering approach to bridge building and peace brokering. During 2019, Matthew was awarded a Temple Scholarship, for ‘ground breaking work ... around partnership and policy formation’ and contributed to the Church of England and Church in Wales Social Responsibility Network Annual Conference, using Spaces of Hope as a lens through which to see ‘Church on the High Street’. During 2020, Matthew has submitted his PhD thesis and supported research, along with colleagues from the Faith and Civil Societies Unit at Goldsmiths, looking at Covid response by FBOs and Local Authorities nationally, for the APPG for Faith and Society. Matthew is currently undertaking work, scoping the potential role of emergent shared values and local leadership in post Covid contexts and the significance for our environment over the next 10 years.
The Professor
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Chris has been working in the fields of public theology, social policy and urban geography for over 20 years. Chris has published widely and has a strong international reputation for his work, including Re-imaging Religion and Belief, a Philosophy of Christian Materialism and his current work on the role of Beliefs, Values and Worldviews at Work. Chris is Director of the William Temple Foundation as well Professor of Religion and Public Life at Goldsmiths, University of London and this spectrum of interests and commitments is what motivates him to be one of our Spaces of Hope Directors.
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