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Professor Denis McManus

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Ethics and Philosophy of Mind
  • The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.mcmanus@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Dianna Smith

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Social and spatial health inequalities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.m.smith@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Gerry Stoker

Chair in Governance

Research interests

  • 1. Much of Gerry Stoker's intitial work focused on local government and urban politics. Key publications include Remaking Planning, 1989 ( with Tim Brindley and Yvonne Rydin and the single-authored The Politics of Local Government (1988) and Transforming Local Governance (2004) 
  • 2. A broader focus on the concept and practice  of governance is reflected  in various article widely cited articles and co-authored  books published including Towards Holistic Governance(2002), Governance Theory and Practice(2009) and Nuclear Power and Energy Policy. The Limits to Governance(2015) 
  • 3. Contributions to debates about how to conduct political science are reflected in four editions of the edited volume (with David Marsh) Theory and Methods in Political Science (1995, 2002, 2010, 2018)  and a co-edited book The Relevance of Political Science. Articles on developing a design arm or solution-orientation to political science have also been written

Email: g.stoker@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Gillian Kennedy

Lecturer B

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: gillian.kennedy@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo

Reader

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: h.f.calvo-pardo@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor John Boswell

Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.c.boswell@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor John Denham

Professor

Email: j.denham@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Jonathan Havercroft

Professor

Research interests

  • 17th Century European Political Theory
  • International Relations Theory
  • Global Constitutionalism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.havercroft@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: k.zotzmann@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Kieron O'Hara

Research interests

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