About the Author

Prior to her appointment to Durham University, Dr Rowlands was Lecturer in Theology and Ministry at King’s College London where she taught Political and Moral Theology. Before King’s, Dr Rowlands worked for seven years in ministerial theological education at the Cambridge Theological Federation, where she was also an Affiliated Lecturer of the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge. 

She teaches and writes on Political Theology, Moral Theology and Practical Theology and has a specialist interest in Catholic Social Thought. Her doctoral research offered the first doctoral level theological engagement with the work of Jewish social philosopher Gillian Rose, and she maintains an interest in the work of Rose, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. She has recently completed a book for theologians and policy makers on Catholic Social Teaching. 

Dr Rowlands has a particular interest in multi-contextual research and is Founding Chair of an innovative practitioner-academic Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice and works closely with a number of leading Faith-based organisations including Citizens UK, CAFOD and the Caritas Social Action Network. Dr Rowlands has also worked on theologies of migration for a decade and is a Co-Investigator on Refugee Hosts (www.refugeehosts.org), a project looking at the role of religion in response to refugees and local host communities in the Middle East.