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Benedict XVI Centre Staff and Affiliates

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Internal Affiliates

stephen-bullivantProf Stephen Bullivant

Director, Benedict XVI Centre; Professor of Theology and Ethics
Email: stephen.bullivant@stmarys.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8240 4185
Specialist areas: Dogmatic Theology; Atheism; Social-Scientific Study of (Non)Religion; Quantitative Methods

andre-alvesDr André Azevedo Alves

Visiting Senior Fellow, Business Studies; Lecturer, Political Science, Catholic University of Portugal
Specialist areas: Political Economy; Public Policy Analysis; Regulation; Ethics; Political Philosophy

ashley-beckRevd Dr Ashley Beck

Lecturer in Pastoral Ministry
Email: ashley.beck@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Catholic Social Teaching; Europe; Theologies of Liberation

philip-boothProf Philip Booth

Professor of Finance, Public Policy, and Ethics
Email: philip.booth@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Economics; Business Ethics; Catholic Social Teaching

leonora-butauLeonora Butau

Graduate Assistant in Theology; PhD candidate in Bioethics
Email: leonora.butau@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Bioethics; Theology of the Body; NaPro Technology

john-charmleyProf John Charmley

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic Strategy; Professor of History
Email: john.charmley@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Religion and British politics, nineteen and twentieth centuries

ruth-kellyRt Hon Ruth Kelly

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise
Email: ruth.kelly@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Finance; Education

Pia Matthews-Dr Pia Matthews

Senior Lecturer
Email: pia.matthews@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Bioethics; John Paul II; Theology of the Body; Disability

jacob-phillipsDr Jacob Phillips

Lecturer in MA Theology
Email: jacob.phillips@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Dogmatic Theology; Fundamental Theology (especially Newman, Ratzinger and Pryzwara)

Dr Francesca Montemaggi

Researcher
Email: francesca.montemaggi@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: Sociology of Religion

Kit Penny

Centre Administrator
Email: kathryn.penny@stmarys.ac.uk


External Affiliates

Edmund Adamus

Director for Marriage and Family Life, Diocese of Westminster
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Dr Christopher R Altieri

World News Editor, Vatican Radio
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Collegium Augustinianum, USA
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Rt Rev David Charlesworth OSB

Abbot, Buckfast Abbey
Website

Prof Matthew Levering

Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology, Mundelein Seminary, USA
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Dr Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Director, Stein Center for Social Research, Ave Maria University, USA
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Dr Mark D Regnerus

Associate Prof of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin 
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James Roberts

Assistant Editor, The Tablet 
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