[3] She attended Manchester University, where she graduated in sociology, after which she worked as a lay person in parish ministry at St Aldate's Church, Oxford.
[4] She then moved to the administrative staff of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, where she directed the week-long 'Vocation 78' conference.
This event, attended by 1400 evangelical students from the UK and overseas, aimed to help professionals develop "thorough-going Christian minds" so as to allow their faith to influence them in their work.
[5] From UCCF she moved to Wycliffe Hall, Oxford to undertake ordination training, following a sense of calling to parish ministry: "Women should be prepared to put aside their natural reticence [to] take on full participation in the leadership in the church".
[2] There was much discussion at the previous year's Church General Synod as to whether or not to ordain female priests.
Osborne was accused in a 2020 complaint of bullying the dean of Llandaff, the Very Reverend Gerwyn Capon.
It was reported that preliminary investigations completed in May 2021 suggested that, on the balance of probability, Osborne had a case to answer.
[15] In December of that year, a local vicar, alleging a general "culture of fear" in the diocese, called for Osborne to be suspended while the case was considered.