Our Staff

Bob Dixon
Director
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Bob has been running the Pastoral Projects Office since it was established in 1996. Prior to that, he worked for several years at the Catholic Research Office for Pastoral Planning in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and, before that, was involved in Catholic secondary education for almost twenty years. He is married and has two adult children.
 

Trudy Dantis
Project Coordinator
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Trudy works with the PRO two days a week. Her principal responsibility is our Building Stronger Parishes project. She is also doing a PhD on parish vitality.

Michael Brady
Resource Development Officer
(Assigned to National Church Life Survey Team)
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Michael began his working life in the world of commerce and industry. A major career change moved him into the welfare and training sector where he worked five years at an inner city mission. Before joining the Pastoral Projects Office, Michael worked for 15 years in pastoral planning and parish pastoral council development in the Archdiocese of Adelaide. Michael’s main focus is working on Catholic participation in the National Church Life Survey. He is married to Patricia and they have seven children plus three grand children. They live in the Adelaide Hills in a log house they built over the last twenty years.

Stephen Reid
Research Officer
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Stephen has a strong interest and qualifications in theology and social research. His professional background is in private industry, mainly in the finance and retail sectors. Stephen’s responsibilities at the Pastoral Projects Office focus on quantitative research, which includes analysing and disseminating data from the 2006 Census and working on a national mapping project. Stephen is also a researcher with the Christian Research Association. Stephen is married to Jane, with whom he has three young children.