Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst or Jackie Hirst is a senior lecturer in comparative religion and South Asian studies at Manchester University.

She has an MA and PhD from Cambridge University and is a qualified teacher, and taught religious education in a school for five years. She was a senior lecturer at Homerton College, training teachers to teach religious education, before moving to Manchester in 1994.

She has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, in an episode first broadcast on 6 October 2016 on the topic of Lakshmi.

Selected publications

Works published for children

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External links

Lakshmi, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time, link. Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst on the panel with Jessica Frazier and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad. Vimeo "Religious Traditions in Modern South Asia - Dr Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Dr John Zavos"