Dr Sandie Cornish
Senior Lecturer, Theology
School of Theology
Areas of expertise: Catholic Social Teaching; Catholic social thought and practice; missiology; Ignatian spirituality; practical theology
HDR supervisor accreditation status: Provisional
Phone: 2 9465 9583
Email: Sandie.cornish@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU North Sydney Campus
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4864-6121
Dr Sandie Cornish is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Theology at the Australian Catholic University and specialises in the field of Catholic Social Teaching. She is a member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. Sandie was one of the periti for the Fifth Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia and is one of the experts and facilitators for the Synod on Synodality.
Sandie has been Director of the Office for Justice, Ecology and Peace of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Director of Quality and Community Engagement for the Sydney College of Divinity, Province Director of Mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Australia and New Zealand, and has worked with the Good Shepherd Sisters in research and social policy. She also worked with the Australian Jesuits assisting in research, policy, planning, and formation in their social ministries. As the Social Justice Education Coordinator for the Diocese of Broken Bay, she had responsibility for the coordination of adult faith programs in social justice, and the development of academic programs in Catholic Social Teaching offered in distance mode through BBI-TAITE. Sandie led the Hong Kong based international human rights agency, the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples, and served as the National Executive Officer of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council for five years. She played a significant role in each of the major research and consultation activities of the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace during the late 1980's and 1990's.
Sandie holds a PhD in Practical Theology, a Licentiate in Catholic Social Doctrine and Ethics from the Pontifical Gregorian University, a Master of Public Policy, and a Bachelor of Economics.
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- Cornish, Sandie. "The Habitus, Reflexivity and an Ignatian Spirituality that Does Justice' in Robert Dixon and Mary Eastham eds., Encountering God: Practical Theology and the Mission to Heal, Coventry Press, Bayswater VIC, 2023, 129-150.
- Cornish, Sandie. "Synodality and Local Social Teaching." The Australasian Catholic Record 99, no. 1 (2022): 76-85. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.348225932280818.
- Cornish, Sandie. "Beyond Principles Alone" in Greg Craven, Shadow of the Cross: Catholic Social Teaching and Australian Politics, The Kapunda Press, Redland Bay, QLD, 2021, 81-98.
- Cornish, Sandie and Andrea Dean. eds. Still Listening to the Spirit: Woman and Man Twenty Years Later. Office for Social Justice, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Sydney, 2019.
- Cornish, Sandie. "Governing in an Ignatian Spirit Today", Promotio Iustitiae, No 125, March 2018. 22-26.
- Cornish, Sandie. "Laudato Si':Making the Connections", Asian Horizons, Vol 9, no 4, December 2015, 609 -620.
- Cornish, Sandie. "People on the Move and Catholic Social Teaching", Asian Horizons, Vol 8, no 4, December 2014, 810 - 822.
- Cornish, Sandie. "The Social Dimension of Evangelisation", in Danielle Achikian et al eds. The Francis Effect: Living the Joy of the Gospel, Catholic Mission & Catholic Religious Australia, North Sydney, 2013.
- Duncan, Bruce & Sandie Cornish. "The Council's Call to Renewed Social Engagement", in Neil Ormerod et al eds. Vatican II: Reception and Implementation in the Australian Church. Mulgrave: Garratt Publishing , 2012.
- Cornish, S., & Freeman, D., "Connecting Catholic Social Teaching to Contemporary Australia", in Daniel McDonald (ed), Catholic Social Teaching in Global Perspective, Gregorian University Studies in Catholic Social Teaching, New York: Orbis, 2010.
- Cornish, Sandie. "Placing Integral Human Development at the Centre of Catholic Social Teaching." The Australasian Catholic Record 86, no. 4 (2009): 450 - 56.
- Macdonald, Marie, Peter Carpenter, Sandie Cornish, Michael Costigan, Robert Dixon, Margaret Malone, Kevin Manning, and Sonia Wagner. Woman and Man One in Christ Jesus. Sydney: Harper Collins, 1999.
Appointments and affiliations
- Member, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
