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Kieron O'Hara

Research interests

  • Privacy, trust, digital modernity, ethics,
  • Web Science, anonymisation,
  • Politics of data
Connect with Kieron

Email: kmo@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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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: K.Messiou@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2642

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Professor Leslie Carr

Professor of Web Science
Connect with Leslie

Email: lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

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: M.Kranert@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8857

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Professor Neil Gregor

Professor of Modern European History

Research interests

  • His first book, Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (Yale University Press, 1998), examined the ways in which a major German corporation adapted to the demands of the Third Reich and became complicit in its racial crimes as a result; it was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book Prize and shared the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History in 1997.  His second major monograph, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (Yale University Press, 2008) marked an attempt to explore the unstable dynamics of post-1945 memory cultures against the background of the social history of the post-war years; it also shared the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History for that year.
  • Whilst working on the post-war years he has maintained an active interest in the study of the Third Reich, editing a collection on the historiography of Nazism, publishing a short study of Hitler's writings, and, editing a Festschrift for Jeremy Noakes; he has co-edited, with my colleagues Mark Roseman (Indiana) and Nils Roemer (Texas) a volume of essays on the comparative study of minorities in German history.
Connect with Neil

Email: N.Gregor@soton.ac.uk

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: N.Clarke@soton.ac.uk

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: P.Ugwudike@soton.ac.uk

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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: P.Spada@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4840

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Mr Paul Muckelt

Research Fellow
Connect with Paul

Email: P.Muckelt@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6889

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