Anna Rowlands is the Founding Chair of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice. She teaches Political Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies there. She works with a range of academic and practitioner groups, aiming to bring theory and practice together for purposes of social change and social conservation. She writes widely on Catholic social teaching, aspects of British and European political cultures and theology and the political including her main research focus at present - theological ethics and migration. She is author of the forthcoming book 'Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching for Dark Times' and editor of ‘Political Theology: A Reader’ (Bloomsbury, 2016).