Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Ridley People: Teaching Staff

Revd Dr Richard Higginson

Revd Dr Richard Higginson, MA, DipTh., CertEd, PhD, is Director of Studies, Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Director of Faith in Business. He taught in a boys' grammar school before studying for a doctorate at Manchester University. He then taught Christian Ethics at St John's College, Durham for seven years before joining the Ridley staff in March 1989.He is the author of Dilemmas: A Christian Approach to Moral Decision-Making, Called to Account: Adding Value in God's World, Transforming Leadership: A Christian Approach to Management, Mind the Gap: Connecting Faith with Work, and Questions of Business Life: Exploring Workplace Issues from a Christian Perspective. His latest book, Faith, Hope & the Global Economy, is published by IVP in May 2012. Richard is particularly interested in the theology and ethics underlying business practice. He is a Visiting Professor at Bakke Graduate University (Hong Kong), and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (Beijing).

He and his wife Felicity have no less than five children! An avid reader, he enjoys walking, cricket, golf and seventeenth-century art, recently compiling a book of sermons which integrate paintings with preaching (available for free here). From 2004-11 Richard was Associate Minister at St Philip's Church in Cambridge.