Faculty members

David Goode

Computer Officer, President of the Cambridge University and College Union

David Goode is a Computer Officer assigned to the Faculty of Divinity. He has previously worked for employers such as Cambridge Publishers Ltd, the Cambridge Evening News, two popular science magazines (see below), and British Railways, among others.

He was for several years a major contributor to the short-lived Practical Astronomy magazine and editor of its slightly-longer-lived successor, Amateur Astronomy & Earth Sciences.

Trade union work

David Goode is President of the Cambridge University and College Union, the union for academic, academic-related, and research staff in further and higher education, and a lead representative of the union in meetings and negotiations with the University's senior administrators. He is an ex officio member of the local Executive Committee, Chair of the Eastern and Home Counties Regional Committee of the national University and College Union, and a member of the Southern and Eastern Regional Council of the Trades Union Congress (SERTUC).

If you want to contact me on confidential union business using public key encryption, please use this public key.

Research interests

• Early, medieval, and modern liturgy of East and West
• The divine (or daily) office, especially Benedictine and "Sarum" uses
• The psalms, psalters, the "psalm collects"
• The typological interpretation of scripture
• Pre- and early post-Reformation English Christianity

Publications: books

• Food in due season : daily table graces for the Christian year; Norwich : Canterbury Press, 2005
• Living bread : prayers of preparation for Holy Communion; Norwich : Canterbury Press, 2006 (read the Church Times review)
• In preparation (research stage) is a devotional book for Lent including lessons, responses and antiphons from the medieval service books to supplement Common Worship: Daily Prayer
• In planning are other books similar to the one above for the Church's other liturgical seasons

Publications: articles

• Many articles in Practical Astronomy and Amateur Astronomy & Earth Sciences magazine; far too many to list individually

Contact details

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9BS

Office tel: 01223 763006
Office tel: 01223 763042
Office fax: 01223 763003

Skype: david.john.goode

Email: computer-officer@divinity.cam.ac.uk