 Returning home following the war, he was appointed (in 1946) the first Presbyterian Chaplain and Dean of Residences at Queen's University, Belfast.As part of that work, he established a Community Centre (the first denominational community centre in the university); it was from those beginnings that the Corrymeela Community was eventually born in 1965 when a building on the north coast of Northern Ireland was purchased.The new centre was formally opened that same year by Pastor Tullio Vinay, founder of the Agape Community, which was one of Ray Davey's greatest inspirations.