Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

It was such a pleasure for my latest Nostalgia Interview to catch up with Stacey Rand. Stacey has been at Kent for around a decade where she is a senior researcher in PSSRU, a research unit focusing on social care and community based services. Stacey is also a priest in the Church of England. Stacey’s first degree was in natural sciences and she ended up specializing in neuroscience, and has also worked in the pharmaceutical industry. She talks about the journey towards ordination, about the relationship between utilitarianism and Christianity and the diverse range of backgrounds of those training for ministry. We also find out what has tended to happen when she wears a clerical collar when travelling on the bus. Stacey was born in Enfield and grew up in Hertfordshire and she talks about how she loved being outdoors as a child. Faith didn’t play such a big role when growing up but the interest/curiosity here developed in her time studying at Cambridge, and she was later baptised as an adult. She disc