{"id":73,"date":"2014-12-05T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebelrebel.org.uk\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:47:29","slug":"new-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JaneBlackall-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello! My name is Jane Blackall. My ultra-compressed biography for social media purposes reads (as of 2026): Unitarian Minister; red\/green; amateur philosopher\/ethicist\/theologian; armchair activist; process-ish panentheist; intermittent artist; demi\/bi; cycling fan; autistic; fat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My &#8216;day job&#8217; is working as Minister with Kensington Unitarians, where I lead worship most weeks, and I facilitate small groups (mostly online) including &#8216;Heart and Soul&#8217; contemplative spiritual gatherings and the &#8216;How to be a Unitarian&#8217; course. In 2021 I completed my ministry training with Unitarian College and also my formation as a spiritual director with the London Centre for Spiritual Direction. Prior to this, in 2017, I gained a first-class BA in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at Heythrop College. I am involved in various voluntary projects, most notably organising Hucklow Summer School, which is one of the things I am most proud to be associated with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I previously had &#8216;another life&#8217; working in academic research in the field of medical imaging and radiological sciences (I got my PhD at Guy&#8217;s Hospital, in the Computational Imaging Sciences Group, then did 5 years post-doc at King&#8217;s and UCL). I&#8217;m glad I had this experience &#8211; if only to prove I had the wherewithal to do it &#8211; but I&#8217;m also glad I chucked it in and held out for a way to do what I really love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In between work, study, and mucking about on the internet, I like gardening, birdwatching, baking, photography, lifting increasingly heavy weights, lino printing, listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and watching the cycling and the Repair Shop on TV. Everything is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Jane Blackall. My ultra-compressed biography for social media purposes reads (as of 2026): Unitarian Minister; red\/green; amateur philosopher\/ethicist\/theologian; armchair activist; process-ish panentheist; intermittent artist; demi\/bi; cycling fan; autistic; fat. My &#8216;day job&#8217; is working as Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revjane.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}