Susan Gillingham

Susan Gillingham
Other names	Susan E. Gillingham S. E. Gillingham
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Institutions	Worcester College, Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
Alma mater	St John's College, Nottingham University of Nottingham University of Exeter Keble College, Oxford
Thesis	Personal piety in the study of the psalms: A reassessment (1987)
Notable awards	Oxford DD (2015)

Susan E. Gillingham is a British theologian, academic, and Anglican lay minister. She specialises in the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms, and Jewish history from the Israelites to the Second Temple. She has been a Fellow and Tutor in theology at Worcester College, Oxford since 1995, and Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford since 2014. She is the first British woman to have been awarded a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Oxford.

Gillingham studied theology at St John's College, Nottingham, an Anglican theological college, where she was its first female student. The college's degree are validated by the University of Nottingham, and so she graduated with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree from Nottingham in 1973. She undertook postgraduate study at the University of Exeter and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1980. she undertook postgraduate research at Keble College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1987. Her doctoral thesis was titled Personal piety in the study of the psalms: A reassessment.