Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Arjun Awasthi

Research interests

  • Consumer Attitudes and Behaviours
  • The Illegal Wildlife Trade
  • Animal Welfare and Species Justice
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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

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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

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Dr Charlotte Joy

Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management
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Dr Charlotte Unruh

Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Future Generations
  • Philosophy of Harm
  • Ethics of Technology
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Miss Chinmaya Potnis

Research interests

  • Inclusive Education
  • Student agency, working alongside students
  • Educational inequality
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Dr Chiying Lam BEd, MA, PhD, FRSPH

Lecturer in Community Music and Scl Jstc

Research interests

  • Post-colonial discourses of power & identity within the music practitioners' community
  • Musicians' pedagogical practice
  • Music education research methods

Accepting applications from PhD students

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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

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Professor Chris Brown

Head of School

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Dr Christopher Fuller

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • US foreign policy
  • Terrorism and counterterrorism
  • Cyberspace and cyber conflict
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