Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

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Professor Dianna Smith

Professor

Research interests

  • Small-area estimation for policy analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Dianna

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3261

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Professor Elizabeth Evans

Professor

Research interests

  • Political representation
  • Political parties 
  • Gender, disability 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Elizabeth

Email: [email protected]

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Professor Gerry Stoker

Chair in Governance

Research interests

  • 1. Much of Gerry Stoker's intitial work focused on local government and urban politics. Key publications include Remaking Planning, 1989 ( with Tim Brindley and Yvonne Rydin and the single-authored The Politics of Local Government (1988) and Transforming Local Governance (2004) 
  • 2. A broader focus on the concept and practice  of governance is reflected  in various article widely cited articles and co-authored  books published including Towards Holistic Governance(2002), Governance Theory and Practice(2009) and Nuclear Power and Energy Policy. The Limits to Governance(2015) 
  • 3. Contributions to debates about how to conduct political science are reflected in four editions of the edited volume (with David Marsh) Theory and Methods in Political Science (1995, 2002, 2010, 2018)  and a co-edited book The Relevance of Political Science. Articles on developing a design arm or solution-orientation to political science have also been written
Connect with Gerry

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 7711441258

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Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo

Reader

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Hector

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 5051

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Professor John Boswell

Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor John Denham

Professor
Connect with John

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 5826

Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Karin

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3976

Kieron O'Hara

Research interests

  • Privacy, trust, digital modernity, ethics,
  • Web Science, anonymisation,
  • Politics of data
Connect with Kieron

Email: [email protected]

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Professor Kyriaki (Kiki) Messiou

Professor of Education

Research interests

  • inclusive education
  • marginalisation in schools
  • research with children and young people

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Kyriaki (Kiki)

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2642

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Dr Lawrence Mckay BA, MRes, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Lawrence is developing a research agenda around geographic divides in political attitudes, between richer and poorer areas, central and 'peripheral' areas, and above all between urban and rural areas. Forthcoming papers explore why voters perceive local decline, unpack citizen beliefs about government's biases towards urban centres, and conduct experiments on the politics of 'levelling-up'.
Connect with Lawrence

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 7557739138

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