Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

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Professor Sunil Manghani

Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique

Research interests

  • Visual Art & Culture
  • Image Studies
  • Critical Theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sunil

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 6915

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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
Connect with Tanay

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 7880695493

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Dr Tereza Capelos

Associate Professor in Politics and IR

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tereza

Email: [email protected]

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Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tim

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7681

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Mr Tom Price

Connect with Tom

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Dr Valentina Cardo

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Valentina

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 6994

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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)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Vanissa

Email: [email protected]

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Professor Will Jennings

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Research interests

  • Public policy
  • Public opinion
  • Polling

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Will

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3998

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Professor Yasmin Sekhon Dhillon

Associate Dean EDI

Research interests

  • Consumer Research
  • Luxury Consumption
  • Cross-cultural Consumption

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yasmin Sekhon

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 6990

Dr Zacharias Maniadis PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Economics of Science
  • Experimental Economics
  • Game Theory
Connect with Zacharias

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3562

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