Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Adriana Patino

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistic ethnography
  • Language socialisation
  • Narrative inquiry

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science
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Dr Ahmad Alshehabi

Lecturer in Accounting

Research interests

  • Asset impairments
  • Earnings management
  • Corporate governance 
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Mr Ahmed AL-Shuaili BSc (Hons), MA, MSc

Research interests

  • Demand and capacity modelling for sustainable and Future transport.Design, monitor, and evaluate transport interventions to promote sustainable choices.Future mobility and the transitions to net zero carbon.Urban Air Mobility and Air Transport Modelling and Design.Transport safetyAccident investigation and analysisRegulations and policies
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Dr Alasdair Marshall

Associate Professor in Risk Management

Research interests

  • Corporate risk management
  • Risk intelligence
  • Risk culture
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Dr Alexandra Anikina

Senior Lecturer in Media Practices

Research interests

  • Algorithmic and Visual Culture
  • Critical Theory and Artistic Research
  • Feminist Science and Technology Studies

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Ms Amanda Jane Blatch-Jones

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Research on Research (currently focusing on peer review and decision-making in research funding and burden of post award management)
  • Netnography / Ethnography
  • Qualitative research / Mixed methods 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Ms Andrea Maria Pelliconi

Lecturer

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Miss Angelina Pan PhD

Teaching Fellow in Graphic Communication

Research interests

  • Graphic semiotic research in urban contexts
  • Community identity and migration heritage study in multicultural urbanism
  • Sociosemiotic research in place-identity-community-making
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