with Dr Anna Abram, Heythrop College, University of London 

     The 11^th October 2006 the Augustinians of the Assumption opened their second year of Conferences on Spirituality which is entitled “A Journey to Freedom”.

     The fist conference “Take a risk: You don’t need to be brave to be courageous!” was hosted by Anna Abram who is a lecturer in Christian Ethics at Heythrop College, University of London. She is also a Sub-Dean of Research Students, and Programme Convenor of MA in Christian Ethics at the same College.

      Born in Poland Anna completed her first degree in theology with special focus on moral theology at Cardinal Wyszynsky University in Warsaw (1992) and then received her MTh (1994) and PhD (2001) from Heythrop College. Her doctoral dissertation was an interdisciplinary study of moral development from the perspective of developmental psychology and virtue ethics.