Docente: Facultad de Humanidades y Educación

Research group: Grupo de Investigación de Bioética, mujer y familia

Email: catherine.declercq@ucavila.es

Doctor by the Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso (Madrid) with the thesis La enseñanza de la teología en las universidades católicas contribución a la nueva evangelización 2018. Supervised by Dr. Christoph Ohly.

Being of French-American nationality with life experience in six countries on various continents, I am currently teaching at the Catholic University of Avila since the 2017 academic year. After studying international business studies in a double degree between the Reims Management School in France and ICADE in Spain, I completed my training with degrees in Theology and Canon Law at the San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University of Madrid. I completed my doctoral thesis in Canon Law at the same ecclesiastical university researching the topic of "The teaching of Theology in Catholic universities. Contribution to the new evangelization" (2017) obtaining the highest qualification. I have worked for a couple of years as an English conversation assistant in various schools in Valencia, and as Defender of the bond and Promoter of Justice in the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Madrid for marriage nullity cases. In my years of university teaching at the UCAV, I have been in several postdoctoral research stays in Rome, Germany and Ireland. I have attended multiple courses, seminars and congresses of theological, canonical, philosophical, humanistic and pedagogical character, of improvement, improvement and teaching innovation. I have published several articles on education or theology in specialized journals and book chapters of pedagogical nature. I have been a reviewer in specialized journals. I am a member of the "John Henry Newman" Chair and the "Santa Teresa de Jesús" Chair of Women's Studies at the Catholic University of Avila. I have been a member of several scientific, organizing and quality committees. I have obtained several scholarships and grants for training courses and stays in foreign centers.