Dr Tanya Wittwer

Academic Level D

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Adelaide College of Divinity
Adelaide College of Divinity, 34 Lipsett Tce, Brooklyn Park SA 5032

Tanya's interest in practical theology is focussed on homiletics and on pastoral care and counselling. Her doctoral research examined preaching in the light of narrative epistemology.
Tanya came to Flinders from the University of Adelaide, where she had coordinated a number of postgraduate Programs in Public Health and in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and lectured in public health, bioethics and narrative practice. She brings experience from community service, the environmental sector and population health.

Key responsibilities

Postgraduate coordinator, Theology

Teaching interests

Homiletics; pastoral care; caring practices of the church/chaplaincy; readings topics; leadership in challenging times.

Supervisory interests
Domestic violence
Education for transformation
Homiletics
Narrative inquiry
Pastoral care and counselling
Pastoral formation