Dr Joanildo Burity is Senior Lecturer and St Quinton Director of Faith and Globalisation Programme in the School of Government and International Affairs and Senior Lecturer and St Quinton Director of Faith and Globalisation Programme in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.

Joanildo Burity completed his PhD in Government (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) at Essex University in 1995, as a grantee from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). His MA in Political Science was completed at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and his BA in History at the Federal University of Paraiba (Brazil). He is a Senior Researcher and former Director of the Social Research Institute at Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Recife, Brazil), and worked as a Lecturer at the Postgraduate Programmes in Sociology and Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco.

He was a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster (London), and a Fulbright Young Scholar at the University of Texas, Austin. He joined Durham University in 2009 to lead the Faith and Globalisation Programme, co-hosted by the School of Government and International Affairs and the Department of Theology and Religion.

He co-leads the Latin American Regional Interest Group, an initiative of the University's Internationalisation Strategy which co-ordinates teaching and research on that subject across departnments at Durham. Dr Burity is also a member of the Advisory Group set up by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the project "Globalisation and Poverty in the UK".

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