Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

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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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Professor Leslie Carr

Professor of Web Science
Connect with Leslie

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4487

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Dr Matt Ryan

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Matt

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3308

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Michael

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 8857

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Professor Neil Gregor

Professor of Modern European History

Research interests

  • Art music in twentieth century Germany
  • Cultural histories in modern German history
  • The Third Reich and Nazism
Connect with Neil

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4866

Dr Nick Clarke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Political geography
  • Urban geography
  • Governance and citizenship

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Nick

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4618

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Professor Pamela Ugwudike PhD, MA, LLB (Hons), FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • AI Ethics 
  • Algorithms in Justice Systems
  • Trustworthy and Responsible AI

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Pamela

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Paolo Spada

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Diffusion and impact of governance and social innovations (Democratic Innovations).
  • Combining large surveys, field experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Paolo

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4840

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