Canon Dr Sanjee Perera is a Cognitive Psychologist and Theologian and serves as the lecturer in Mission and Evangelism at Cranmer Hall. She is also an Honorary Canon of Liverpool Cathedral, and holds fellowships In Theology & Religion at the University of Durham, the University of Chester and an associate fellowship at the Open University School of Law. She was previously the Archbishops’ Adviser for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns in the Church of England and has spent the last couple of decades in academia teaching and researching in Psychology, Sociology, and Philosophy, Theology and Religion departments. She is also trustee and governor of several charities, including the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), the Overseas Bishopric Fund and the College of Catholic Anglican Women.
She has a BA Combined (Hons) in Psychology & Sociology with Theology from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in Psychology exploring the relationship between ethno-social identity and moral development, judgement, and decision-making in societies experiencing violent conflict.
Missional Engagement
Sanjee brings a rich array of missiological perspectives to offer our curriculum and has experience in teaching missiology, ecclesiology, post-colonial theology, practical theology, science and religion, research methods, and the psychology/sociology of religion in several TEIs in the UK and beyond. Her mission and evangelism experience spans a number of continents from youth and children’s ministry in CPAS camps and in her local churches to mission ventures with CMS in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan in the Afghan border, to beach mission in her native Sri Lanka. She has worked with the Church of England Mission & Evangelism team and was a member of the Church of England Vision & Strategy team in its early iterations.