About
Research
Email: marianne.rozario@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
Marianne is a Research and Knowledge Exchange Associate with the Centre for the Art of Living and Dying Well. She is also an affiliate of the Benedict XVI Centre for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society.
Marianne was previously Course Lead and Lecturer on the MA Social Justice and Public Service at St Mary's. Previous to this, she was Project Manager of Catholic Mission. She has also been an Associate Lecturer within the Institute of Business, Law and Society as Module Convenor for ‘Global Governance’ on the MA Diplomacy and International Relations and a supervisor on a number of Masters’ dissertations on the MA Human Trafficking, Migration and Organised Crime.
Lecturing Experience
- 2023 - 2024 - Lecturer and Course Lead: MA Social Justice and Public Service – St Mary’s University
- 2021-2022 - Associate Lecturer: Dissertation Supervisor on the MA Human Trafficking, Migration and Organised Crime – St Mary’s University
- 2022 - Module Convenor: ‘Global Governance’ module on the MA Diplomacy and International Relations – St Mary’s University
- 2020-2021 - Associate Lecturer: Dissertation Supervisor on the MA Human Trafficking, Migration and Organised Crime – St Mary’s University
- 2021 - Guest Lecturer: Research Design – Advanced Research Methods – St Mary’s University
- 2019 - Lecturer: Catholic Foreign Policy – Religion and World Politics POLI3000 module - The University of Notre Dame Australia
Research
Research profile
Research profile
Marianne holds a PhD in International Relations exploring the notion of Catholic agency in international society through the University of Notre Dame Australia, as well as a MA (Hons) in International Relations from the University of St Andrews.
She is currently also Senior Researcher and Projects Lead for Theos, a religion and politics think tank in London.
Conference Papers
- Marie Curie - Joint runner up Joanna Mugridge Award for 'Ethnically Diverse Faith Perspectives on Death Literacy and End-of-Life Care: A Community-based participatory research project in Birmingham' poster (2026)
- University of Exeter - 'Christendom in Contemporary Scholarship of the English School' (June 2022)
- University of Oxford - 'The Catholic Agency of Saints in International Relations' - Christian identity in nation, transnational and local space (April 2022)
- ISA Annual Convention - Nashville Online – 'Glocal Dimensions of Catholic Agency' Rozario and Santos (March 2022)
- APSA Macquarie University Online 'Glocal Dimensions of Catholic Agency' (September 2021)
- ISA Annual Convention – Las Vegas Online 'Catholic Agency in English School Theory in International Relations' (April 2021)
- The Australian Association for the Study of Religion - 'Catholic Anti-Slavery Initiatives: Moral Foundations and Resources of Religious Action' (December 2019)
Publications
- Rozario, Marianne, and Syed Kamall. "The Commonwealth of Nations as international society–an English School perspective." The Round Table 115, no. 5 (2026): 934-948.
- Motherhood: Inside Out (2026) - Theos and Bible Society.
- Creating a Neighbourhood Health Service: the role of churches and faith groups in social prescribing (2025) - Theos and Good Faith Partnership.
- Ethnically Diverse Faith Perspectives on Death Literacy and End-of-Life Care: A Community-based participatory research project in Birmingham (2025) - Centre for the Art of Living and Dying Well, St Mary's University.
- Moving on Project: Wraparound Survivor Support (2025) - Theos and Medaille Trust.
- Rozario, Marianne. "Theorizing Catholicism in International Relations: An English School Framework." The Review of Faith & International Affairs 22, no. 1 (2024): 75-86.
- Ashes to Ashes: Beliefs, Trends, and Practices in Dying, Death, and the Afterlife (2023) – Theos and the Susanna Wesley Foundation
- Rozario, Marianne Louise. "Luca Mavelli and Erin K. Wilson (eds.), The Refugee Crisis and Religion: Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question." Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 31, no. 1 (2018).