Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Professor Sunil Manghani

Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique

Research interests

  • Visual Art & Culture
  • Image Studies
  • Critical Theory

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Mr Tanay Gandhi BA, LL.B. (Hons.), MA

Research interests

  • 20th Century French post-foundational philosophy; especially, Ranciere, Foucault, and Merleau-Ponty
  • Decolonial and Black radical traditions of thought and approaches to political theory
  • Philosophical aesthetics; from 18th Century German aesthetic theory to contemporary approaches
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Professor Tereza Capelos

Professor

Research interests

  • Grievance Politics and Resentful Emotionality
  • Emotions and Democratic Politics
  • Reactionism, Radicalism and Political Orientations

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Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

  • Learning and reasoning under uncertainty
  • AI safety
  • Human-AI collaboration

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Mr Tom Price

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Dr Triana Amen

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Biology

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Dr Valentina Cardo

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Valentina's research interests include:
  • The relationship between citizenship and identity;
  • Political representation;

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Dr Valentina Di Iasio

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Economics of Migration 
  • Development Economics
  • Economic Geography
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Dr Vanissa Wanick FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design

Research interests

  • Games for change, social good and wellbeing
  • Games Design, Gamification and player experience (e.g., player agency, emerging storytelling)
  • Human behaviour and Interface Design (e.g. rituals, gestures, mental models, values)

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Dr Vicky Dominguez Almela

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Her work has included the use of individual-based models (IBMs), geographical information systems (GIS) and stable isotopes to increase understandings of invasion patterns and evaluate invasive species eradication programmes. She also uses citizen science tools to co-produce knowledge with the general public and increase adaptation pathways to climatic risks.
  • Champion of the Nature-Based Solutions Special Interest Group at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute.
  • Postgrad Rep and Social Media Lead of the British Ecological Society Invasion Science Group.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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