Dr Lindsay Simmonds is a Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), where she has lectured, written, and convened courses for over 20 years, focusing on women in Biblical narrative, the Talmud, and Jewish Law. In 2024, she completed a three-year project at the Religion and Global Society Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK, where she researched Women of Faith and Peacebuilding. Her PhD (Department of Gender, LSE) is entitled, Generation Piety: Agency in the Lives of British Orthodox Jewish Women.

Lindsay studied for several years in Jerusalem: at Nishmat – The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women, and as a Bruria Scholar at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She is also a graduate of the LSJS Susi Bradfield Women Educators’ Fellowships in London, UK.

Additionally, Lindsay is co-chair of her local Jewish-Muslim Women’s Network, Nisa-Nashim, Vice-Chair of Trustees for the Abraham Initiatives UK, and Jewish Scholar-in-Residence for the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ). She speaks regularly on peaceful shared society, interfaith relations, and conflict negotiation.