Our people

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Professor Annika Werner

Professor

Research interests

  • Comparative politics
  • Challenges to liberal democracy
  • Citizens' support for and attitudes to democracy

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Becky Ward PGCE, PhD, FHEA, CPsychol

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Psychological approaches to homelessness
  • Homeless prevention for young people
  • Developmental psychology
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Dr Bindi Shah PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • A key question that Bindi is interested in asking is: What shapes citizenship and a sense of …
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdiscipli…

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Dr Brian Mcelwee

Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Normative Ethics
  • Applied Ethics, esp Global Poverty
  • Metaethics and Normativity

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Dr Charlotte Joy

Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management
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Dr Charlotte Unruh

Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests

  • Future Generations
  • Philosophy of Harm
  • Ethics of Technology

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Miss Chinmaya Potnis

Research interests

  • Inclusive educational contexts 
  • Student agency and Intergenerational partnerships  Educational equity
  • Creative research methods 
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Professor Chris Armstrong

Professor of Political Theory

Research interests

  • Global justice
  • Climate justice
  • Ocean justice and ocean politics

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Professor Chris Brown

Head of School

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