Editorial Team

Editor in Chief
Lindsay B. Carey, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Lindsay Carey, MAppSc, PhD, is an Associate Professor (Adj.) with the Palliative Care Unit, School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Associate Professor (Adj.) with the Institute for Ethics and Society, The University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. Dr. Carey's research interests include quantitative and qualitative research, public health, speech and hearing, palliative and aged care, death and dying, religiosity and health, the sacralization of identity process and occupational epidemiology. He first commenced tertiary teaching and research in 1989 with the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences (Melbourne) and then from 1992 with the School of Public Health, La Trobe University (Melbourne). He has served as Research Fellow for the Caring for Caregivers Program (Victoria), Research Fellow with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Evaluation Program, Chaplaincy Research Fellow with the Pastoral Care Department of the Northern General Hospital (Sheffield, UK), National Research Fellow with the Australian Health & Welfare Chaplains Association (AHWCA) and Senior Research Chaplain, Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force. In 2010 he was made a Life Member of 'Spiritual Care Australia' and an Honorary Scholar with the Centre of Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University (US). He has 30 years years of pastoral care experience and research in parish and chaplaincy settings (including industrial chaplaincy, welfare chaplaincy, health care chaplaincy and defence force chaplaincy).

Editors
Rebecca Adams, NHS Tayside, United Kingdom

Mark Newitt
, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and St. Luke’s Hospice, United Kingdom
Rev. Dr. Mark Newitt is Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy, Free Churches Group, United Kingdom and part-time Chaplain at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals & St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield, UK.

Daniel Nuzum, University College Cork, Ireland
Healthcare Chaplain at Cork University Hospital and Bon Secours Hospital since 2009. Healthcare Chaplain at Marymount University Hospital and Hospice since 2011. Rural Dean of Cork City since 2002. Diocesan Ecumenical Officer since 2002.

Piret Paal, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria
Director of the Institute of Palliative Care at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria.

Joanne Pike, Wrexham University, United Kingdom

Chris Swift, Director of Chaplaincy & Spirituality at Methodist Homes, United Kingdom
Before becoming Director at Chaplaincy for Methodist Homes in June 2017, Chris Swift was Head of Chaplaincy at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals where he served from 2001. Between 2004 and 2007 he was President of the College of Health Care Chaplains. Since obtaining his PhD in 2005 from the University of Sheffield he has continued to research and publish and was instrumental in establishing the MA in Health & Social Care Chaplaincy at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2011. Chris is a module leader on the MA and also holds an honorary research fellowship at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the editorial board for the Christian social responsibility journal, Crucible, and has served on the editorial team of the UK's Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy for many years prior to the agreement to publish Health & Social Care Chaplaincy.


Book Review Editor
Fran Kissack, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester, United Kingdom


Editorial Board
Meg Burton, Free Churches Group, London, UK
Wyatt Hillary Butcher, New Zealand Healthcare Chaplains Association (NZHCA), New Zealand
Patricia R. Casey, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and UCD, Ireland
Jeffrey Cohen, University of Notre Dame, Australia
George Fitchett, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Daniel Grossoehme, Akron Children's Hospital, USA
Ewan Kelly, University of Leuven, Belgium
Harold G. Koenig, Duke University, USA
Cameron Langlands, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Carlo Leget, University of Humanistic Studies, Netherlands
Duncan MacLaren, NHS Lothian, UK
John McMahon, West London Mental Health Trust, UK
Steve Nolan, Princess Alice Hospice The University of Winchester, UK
Michael Paterson, NHS Spiritual Care (Scotland), UK
Austyn Snowden, Edinburgh University, UK
John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, UK
Martin van den Bergh, Yiftach Consultants, UK
Earle Waugh, University of Alberta, Canada

HSCC Editors-in-Chief:
Revd. Meg Burton (2013 - 2019)
Assoc. Prof. Revd. Dr. Lindsay CareyPhD, CSM (2020-2023)
Prof. Austyn Snowden, PhD. (2024: January-April)
Assoc. Prof. Revd. Dr. Lindsay CareyPhD, CSM (2024: May - )