On 25 October 2023 Prof. Rachel Muers gave the autumn 2023 Smith Lecture to the title, 'A Systematics of One's Own: Reflections on a Search For Foremothers In Systematic Theology'.

You can listen to the lecture here.

Rachel Muers joined the University of Edinburgh in 2022, as the first woman to be appointed to the historic Chair of Divinity.

She is a theologian who tries to listen and speak across boundaries – disciplinary, confessional, and institutional. Prof. Muers has worked both on the history of Christian theology (particularly the twentieth century) and on developing new theological responses to urgent questions.

Prof. Muers studied at the University of Cambridge (BA 1997, MPhil 1998, PhD 2002) and was Margaret Smith Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge from 2001 to 2003. She was a Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter from 2003 to 2007, and then Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds from 2007; she was promoted to a personal chair in 2018.

Rachel Muers is a former President of the Society for the Study of Theology and a current member of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission.