Elaine Storkey is a British philosopher, sociologist, and theologian.
22 Facts About Elaine Storkey
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Elaine Storkey is known for her lecturing, writing and broadcasting.
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Elaine Storkey left Manchester College to join her husband on the faculty of the University of Stirling.
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Elaine Storkey started broadcasting with the BBC in 1986, after they both returned from a period of lecturing at Calvin College, Michigan, and Covenant College, Tennessee, in the United States.
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Elaine Storkey has since been involved in many documentaries, arts, news and current affairs programmes.
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Elaine Storkey was a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Today for more than 20 years and has written many scripts for the BBC World Service.
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Elaine Storkey has authored several books, including What's Right with Feminism, The Search for Intimacy Mary's Story, Mary's Songand Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women.
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Elaine Storkey was a close colleague of the biblical scholar Catherine Clark Kroeger, whose obituary she wrote in July 2011.
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Elaine Storkey has served on many other boards and councils, including the Crown Nominations Commission, the environmental agency A Rocha, the global advocacy group Micah Challenge, and as Vice President of the University of Gloucestershire.
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Elaine Storkey is currently President of Fulcrum, a Church of England think-tank.
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Elaine Storkey holds a Lambeth DD degree an honorary PhD from the University of Gloucestershire, and is a Fellow of Aberystwyth University.
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Elaine Storkey's Created or Constructed grew out of lectures given at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
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Elaine Storkey continues to teach on the Christian Mind course at Oxford University, and has been a lecturer with the Montgomery Trust since 2001.
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Elaine Storkey became a member of High Table at Newnham College, Cambridge, in January 2008.
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Elaine Storkey has been a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Festival.
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Elaine Storkey has been a member of the Emerging Markets Symposium, and The Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy.
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Elaine Storkey has lectured across the world, including in Haiti, India, Nepal, Turkey and Ethiopia, and is a prominent feminist evangelical.
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Elaine Storkey's writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement.
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Elaine Storkey has visited many African countries and been involved in advocacy, with strong links to Heal Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Elaine Storkey's widely acclaimed book Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women was published in November 2015.
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Elaine Storkey was given a lifetime achievement award for services to women by the American group CBE in 2008, and in 2013 her alma mater, Aberystwyth University, honoured her with a University Fellowship.
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Alan and Elaine Storkey have three sons and six grandchildren.