Myra N. Blyth

Myra N. Blyth is a research fellow of Regent’s Park College within the University of Oxford, where she spent more than a decade as a tutorial fellow, and Principal Investigator on an Oxford-based restorative justice research programme (since 2014). Her publications include Forgiveness and Restorative Justice: Perspectives from Christian Theology (Palgrave, 2021), co-authored with Matthew Mills and Michael Taylor. She is also a board member of the Life and Peace Institute based in Sweden (Vice-President, 2019-2023) and a founding trustee of the Mint House: Oxford Centre for Restorative Practice (since 2017).

Matthew J. Mills is Vice-Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society and an honorary fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He is also a senior member of Regent’s Park College within the University of Oxford, where he held a lectureship in Medieval Studies, and a co-investigator on the restorative justice research programme led by Myra Blyth (since 2014). In addition to Forgiveness and Restorative Justice (with Blyth and Taylor), his recent publications include studies of monastic life and thought, and theological resonances in the work of the modern moral philosopher, Iris Murdoch.