Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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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

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Dr Paul Bridgen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The impact of the environmental crisis on welfare states
  • Eco-social policy developments - theory and empirical evaluations
  • Energy/fuel poverty in the UK and EU

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Paul Muckelt

Research Fellow
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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 
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Dr Pritipuspa Mishra

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Indian history from 1800 to Present
  • India and the British Empire
  • Indian Anti-colonialism

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

Lecturer

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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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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Dr Rikki Dean

Associate Professor
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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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