Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

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Mr Paul Muckelt

Research Fellow
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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 6889

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Mr Piao Mao

Research interests

  • Modern political philosophy from the 16th century to the 19th century (especially Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocquieuce and Marx)
  • Greek and Roman political philosophy
  • The Theory of Modern State 
Connect with Piao

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

New Frontiers Fellow

Research interests

  • Responsible Research and Innovation of emergent technologies
  • Multimodal machine learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Computational social science

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 9304

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Dr Richard Gomer BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (he/him)

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Agency-oriented Design
  • Data Institutions

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Robert Johns

Professor of Politics

Research interests

  • Public opinion
  • British and especially Scottish elections
  • Political psychology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Russell Bentley

Professorial Fellow-Education

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2635

Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
  • humanitarianism 
  • political participation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4859

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Dr Steve Taylor

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • risk management
  • cybersecurity
  • trust
Connect with Steve

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 8866

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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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte PhD, MSc, MA(Hons)

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • experimental methods
  • political sociology
  • LGBTQ+ politics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stuart

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3524

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