Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Adriana Patino

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistic ethnography
  • Language socialisation
  • Narrative inquiry

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Adriana

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2208

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Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science
Connect with Age

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Bindi Shah PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • A key question that Bindi is interested in asking is: What shapes citizenship and a sense of belonging to the nation amongst immigrants and established ethnic minority communities?
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdisciplinary solutions to climate crisis and biodiversity loss for marginalised communities.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Bindi

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3563

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Dr Brian Mcelwee

Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Normative Ethics
  • Applied Ethics, esp Global Poverty
  • Metaethics and Normativity

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Brian

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 5847

Dr Brian Pickering MA, PGCert, MSc, DPhil, MBPsS, MBCS

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • technology use, especially in healthcare
  • the ethics of AI and explainable AI from a user perspective

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Brian

Email: [email protected]

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Professor Chris Armstrong

Professor of Political Theory

Research interests

  • Global justice
  • Climate justice
  • Ocean justice and ocean politics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3072

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Dr Christopher Fuller

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • US foreign policy
  • Terrorism and counterterrorism
  • Cyberspace and cyber conflict
Connect with Christopher

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3413

Professor Claire Le Foll

Professor

Research interests

  • History and culture of Jews in Belarus from 1772 to 1939, including Belarusian-Jewish relations
  • Jewish art in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Belarus and Ukraine
  • Nationalities policy in the Russian/Soviet western borderlands

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Claire

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7536

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Dr Daniel Devine

Lectureship in Politics and IR

Research interests

  • Public opinion
  • Voting behaviour
  • Political psychology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Daniel

Email: [email protected]

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Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4743

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