Kate Adams
Educator, Author
About Speaker
Prof Kate Adams works in the School of Education at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She worked as a primary school teacher before giving up the profession to study for a PhD exploring children’s dreams which they assigned a divine connection to, and moving into an academic career. Over the last two decades she has published widely on different aspects of children’s spiritual lives, uncovering the often silenced voices of children from secular and religious backgrounds. Her books including Unseen Worlds: Looking through the lens of childhood, and, with Brendan Hyde and Richard Woolley, The Spiritual Dimension of Childhood (both with Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Previously, Kate has served on the Board of Directors for the International Association for the Study of Dreams and also acted as Co-Chair of the International Association for Children’s Spirituality.