Academic staff
Dr Gabriele Badano
Ethical principles applying to public administration; issues of justice and fairness in resource allocation; liberal theories of public justification and counter-speech.
Dr Udit Bhatia
Contemporary democratic theory, political epistemology, comparative political theory and history of political thought.
Professor Monica Brito Vieira
History of political thought and contemporary political theory; Thomas Hobbes; theories of political representation, the history and theory of democracy; populism; theories of rights; constitutionalism; natural law; the materiality of ideas and processes of canon formation.
Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott
Professor Sara de Jong
The politics of NGOs and global civil society; migration and refugees; postcolonialism, race and racism; gender, sexuality and feminist politics; the role of brokers in international development; co-optation of radical politics and complicity.
Dr Kieran Durkin
Marx and Marxism; radical humanism; the humanist Marx.
Professor Matthew Festenstein
Political theory and the history of political thought; American pragmatism; multiculturalism; political trust.
Dr Adam Fusco
Political theory; neo-republicanism; non-nomination, democracy and constitutions; structural domination; secession; self-determination; Irish unionist and republican political thought; Northern Ireland constitutional politics.
Dr Alfred Moore
Deliberative democracy; social epistemology; the politics of expertise, technology and democracy.
Dr Alasia Nuti
Historical injustice; structural injustice; memory; violence; pluralism; immigration; gender and sexuality; oppression.
Dr Martin O'Neill
Moral and political philosophy; freedom, autonomy, and responsibility; social justice; equality and inequality; political philosophy, political economy and public policy, including taxation, monetary policy, corporations and economic governance, work and labour unions.
Professor Timothy Stanton
Hobbes and Locke; politics and religion; political theology; ideas of civil society and popular sovereignty.
Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle
Relations between moral philosophy, theology and political thought; British moral, religious and political thought from Locke to Hume; questions of human (un)sociability, recognition and respect.
Professor Alan Thomas
Political philosophy; political economy; moral philosophy; and social epistemology.
Dr Sara Van Goozen
Global ethics and contemporary just war theory; political obligation and sovereignty.
Dr Annette Zimmermann
Political philosophy, philosophy of AI, philosophy of machine learning, algorithmic injustice, fair machine learning, social and political epistemology, abstraction in algorithmic modelling, risk and uncertainty, collective decision making, computational and social complexity.