About us
The Dominican Centre for Interfaith, Ministry, Education and Research (CIMER) engages with communities of people of other faiths, and contributes to mutual understanding and social cohesiveness in Australian society.
We develop communities and make known the theological and other resources found in the Catholic and Christian tradition which support interfaith engagement.
We focus especially on women’s role and participation in the religious faith traditions and women’s contribution to building societies of peace, justice and care of creation.
Our Director, Trish Madigan, is a Dominican sister with pastoral experience in education, university chaplaincy and interfaith relations, who is experienced in interfaith dialogue in many contexts.
Trish has completed studies in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue at Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, Harvard Divinity School and Trinity College Dublin where she specialized in Christian-Muslim relations. She is a foundation member of the Women’s Interfaith Network (WIN) in Sydney and a Christian representative on the Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Jews and Muslims (ANDCJM). In 2002 Trish participated in a Consultation of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue for the Asian region held in Seoul, South Korea. Between 2004 and 2008 she has been an Australian delegate at four regional inter-governmental conferences of the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace and Harmony.
Trish completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sydney on the topic of Women in Islam and Catholicism. She has worked on research projects with the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Women’s Coalition (AWC), the Gϋlen Institute, Macquarie University Law School and the National Office for the Participation of Women (OPW) of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
She is frequently published in her areas of research interest which are
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