Nicola lectures in systematic theology at Laidlaw College and Graduate School in Auckland New Zealand. She studied mathematics at Victoria University in Wellington, biology in Australia, and theology at Gordon Conwell and Drew University, New Jersey (Ph.D). She co-authored (with C. Pohl) Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy (IVP 2005). As well as feminism Nicola is interested in evolutionary theory, God’s presence in the natural world, animal theology, the theology of healing and the problem of evil, and she has written a number of papers in these areas in Zygon, Colloquium and Pacifica. Her article on “The Salvation of Creatures” will be published in a book on Salvation, ed. Ivor Davidson (Ashgate, 2010). She was a participant in the 2003-2005 Templeton Oxford Seminars in Science and Christian Faith, she chairs a Local Society Initiative in theology and the natural sciences (TANSA), and writes a column on science and faith issues for the NZ Journal Stimulus. She is currently writing a book, Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil for Macmillan. With Tim Meadowcroft Nicola is co-editor of Colloquium, the Australian and New Zealand Theological Review.