Volunteer Lay Chaplain

Lilian, an architectural and MBA University of Edinburgh graduate turned social entrepreneur (founded Fourth World Art), the former Catholic Lay Chaplain at St Albert’s Catholic Chaplaincy and now the University of Edinburgh’s Intercultural and Anti-Discrimination Adviser. A newly created role at the University to offer specialised support for students and to work in collaboration with staff in navigating cultural differences, fostering intercultural dialogue, and preventing any forms of discrimination within the University community.

In Lilian’s spare time she is an avid tennis player and represents the Meadows City Tennis Club in the women’s doubles leagues, loves bagging Munro’s (slowly making her way through a total of 282) and is currently discerning to become a Lay Dominican (lay community of men and women with a lifelong commitment to the Dominican Order and to the spirit and charism of St Dominic).