Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1: From Urban Beginnings ... ; 2: Celebrating the Student Experience; 3: Maintaining the Integrity of Student Support Services in Mass Higher Education; 4: Widening Participation in Higher Education; 5: The Art of the Spiritual Detective -- A Research Student Experience; 6: Chaplaincy Presence and Activity; 7: The Foundation Deanery and the Mission; 8: The Reconstruction of Theology; 9: Theology, Ecumenism and Public Life; 10: Research in Theology and Religious Studies; 11: Government Policy and Research at Liverpool Hope
Summary
The Foundation of Hope is both a celebration and an analysis of the creation of Liverpool Hope University College in 1996 and of some of its achievements to date, during an exciting period in British higher education. The central focus is the student experience at Hope University College. Contributors also examine the way that teaching and research in theology have developed over the years and the important community regeneration work Hope University College carries out in various areas of Liverpool