Séverine Deneulin
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Director of Integral Human Development | Acting Director
Séverine is Director of Integral Human Development at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Associate Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development.
During the 2025-26 academic year, she is Acting Director of the LSRI.
Her research is at the intersection between development studies and the Catholic social tradition, and brings faith traditions into dialogue with the social sciences on matters of global socio-economic development and sustainability. She has published extensively on the works of economist and philosopher Amartya Sen and on social and environmental justice issues in Latin America. She is currently working with the Catholic Peace-Building Network at the University of Notre Dame on a project on the Catholic Church and mining, which aims at analysing faith-based responses to mining conflicts at the local and global level. Her most recent publications include: ‘The Catholic Church and Mining: Types of Responses’ (with Caesar Montevecchio); 'Faith-Based Participation in Natural Resource Governance in Latin America’; ‘Social equity and care for the earth: tensions and synergies in Latin America’; ‘Care for the Poor, Care for the Earth: Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development’ (with Masooda Bano); Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition (open access book); and Integral Human Development: The Capability Approach and Catholic Social Teaching (with Clemens Sedmak).
Prior to joining the Laudato Si’ Research Institute in 2019, Séverine was Associate Professor in International Development at the University of Bath.
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Education
DPhil, International Development, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
MA Economics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
BA Economics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
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Selected Publications
Faith-Based Participation in Natural Resource Governance: Communities Defending Life and Territories in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, Research report (lead author). 2024. Open access. https://www.wri.org/research/faith-based-participation-natural-resource-governance-brazil-colombia-mexico
“Social Equity and Care for the Earth: Tensions and Synergies in Latin America.” Oxford Development Studies. Special issue. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2024.2395019
“Care for the Poor, Care for the Earth: Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development.” Religion and Development (with Masooda Bano). Special issue. 2023. Open access. https://brill.com/view/journals/rnd/2/1/rnd.2.issue-1.xml
Integral Human Development: The Capability Approach and Catholic Social Teaching. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2023 (with Clemens Sedmak). https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268205706/integral-human-development/
"Education for Just Transitions Lifelong Learning and the 30th Anniversary Human Development Report", International Review of Education, 2021 (with Simon McGrath). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-021-09914-w
"Religion and Development: Integral Ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod", Third World Quarterly, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1948324
Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition: Towards an Integral Ecology. Religion and Development Research Series. Open access. Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121534
"Engaging Development with Religion: Methodological Groundings", World Development, 99: 110-121, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.014 (with Augusto Zampini-Davies)
2016. “Theology and Development as Capability Expansion.” HTS Theological Studies. 72(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i4.3230 (with Augusto Zampini-Davies)
“Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On.” World Development 39(1): 45-54, 2011 (with Carole Rakodi). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.05.007
Religion in Development. Zed Books, 2009 (with Masooda Bano). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/religion-in-development-9781848137684/
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