Staff profile

Nina Kurlberg is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education in the Department of Theology and Religion. In her PhD, titled "The 'telos' of faith-based aid: Christian organising in development, humanitarianism and advocacy through the lens of institutional logics" (University of Edinburgh, 2023), she used the institutional logics perspective to explore what the faith orientation of faith-based organisations (FBOs) means in their actual day-to-day practice.

Nina has worked within the international development sector for nearly a decade in various research and project management roles, both in the UK and Sri Lanka. Most recently, she worked for Tearfund, developing organisational theology on equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as part of a global team of theologians spanning different countries, cultures, and languages. As part of this role, she was guest editor for a special issue of CRDA Journal on decolonising organisational practice. Nina is also interested in the points of connection between EDI and safeguarding within Christian organising, and her current research project, which focuses on organisational responses to abuse within the Church, uses ethnography to explore this theme.

Nina is co-editor of Theologies and Practices of Inclusion (SCM Press, 2021) and Disability Inclusion in Africa (Langham Publishing, forthcoming 2024). Her first monograph, Institutional Logics within Faith-Based Aid, will be published by Routledge in August 2024.

Book review

• Kurlberg, N. (in press). Narrating Faith and Displacement. Expository Times,

Chapter in book

• Daehnhardt, M., & Kurlberg, N. (in press). Disability, Beliefs and Theologies in African Contexts. In M. Daehnhardt, N. Kurlberg, H. J. Conradie, & E. Murangira (Eds.), Disability Inclusion in Africa. Langham Publishing
• Kurlberg, J., & Kurlberg, N. 'Disability', Theology, and Digitality. In Oxford Handbook of Digital Theology. Oxford University Press
• Kurlberg, N. (2022). The 'Telos' as a Lens That Illuminates Values in Practice. In G. Espedal, B. Jelstad Løvaas, S. Sirris, & A. Wæraas (Eds.), Researching Values: Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership (243-261). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90769-3_14
• Kurlberg, N. (2021). Embrace in the Margins: A Theological Framework for Inclusion. In N. Kurlberg, & M. Daehnhardt (Eds.), Theologies and Practices of Inclusion: Insights From a Faith-based Relief, Development and Advocacy Organization. SCM Press
• Deepan, P., & Kurlberg, N. (2021). Interrogating Gender, Faith and Masculinities: Tearfund's Transforming Masculinities Approach. In N. Kurlberg, & M. Daehnhardt (Eds.), Theologies and Practices of Inclusion: Insights From a Faith-based Relief, Development and Advocacy Organization. SCM Press

Edited book

• Daehnhardt, M., Kurlberg, N., Conradie, J. H., & Murangira, E. (Eds.). (in press). Disability Inclusion in Africa. Langham Publishing
• Kurlberg, N., & Daehnhardt, M. (Eds.). (2021). Theologies and Practices of Inclusion: Insights From a Faith-based Relief, Development and Advocacy Organization. SCM Press

Journal Article

• Kurlberg, N., & Hoksbergen, R. (2023). Decolonising Practice: Pathways, Insights, and Experiences from the Field of Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy. Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy (CRDA), 5(1), 1-6

Monograph

• Kurlberg, N. G. (2024). Institutional Logics within Faith-Based Aid. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003480839