Canon Sagovsky, the Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey and is the author of many books and articles on theology, ecumenism and social justice.

He has contributed vigorously to the debate on key social justice issues such as benefit levels, debt, the community charge, the nature of capitalism and asylum.

After graduating at Oxford he worked at the Mayflower Centre, Canning Town, and as a teacher at Scott Lidgett Comprehensive School in Bermondsey. Then, after ordination, he was curate at St Gabriel’s, Heaton, before moving to Cambridge for graduate studies.

He was appointed Vice Principal and Director of Studies at Edinburgh Theological College, and later Dean and Director of Studies in Theology at Clare College, Cambridge. More recently he was William Leech Professor in Applied Christian Theology at Newcastle University and then Professor of Theology and public Life at Liverpool Hope University College.

Recent publications by Nicholas Sagovsky include The Unity We have and the Unity We Seek (T&T Clark) and Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion (Cambridge University Press).