Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Dr Rose Lindsey

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Longitudinal mixed-methods research
  • Voluntary action and the voluntary sector
  • Using Mass Observation writing in research

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Professor Russell Bentley

Professorial Fellow-Education

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Dr Sami Everett

Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Sandra Wilks

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Applied biofilm research
  • Medical devices
  • Infection prevention

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Dr Shelley Boulianne

Professor

Research interests

  • Political behaviour
  • Civic engagement
  • Political communication

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Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
  • humanitarianism 
  • political participation

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Dr Steve Taylor

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • risk management
  • cybersecurity
  • trust
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Dr Steven White PhD

Snr Teaching Fellow Ed Development

Research interests

  • Teaching critical thinking and digital literacy
  • Threshold concepts
  • Learning Design

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Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
  • Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

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Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • experimental methods
  • political sociology
  • LGBTQ+ politics

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