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Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

New Frontiers Fellow

Research interests

  • Responsible Research and Innovation of emergent technologies
  • Multimodal machine learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Computational social science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.mestre@soton.ac.uk

Address: B60, West Highfield Campus, 104-118 Burgess Road, SO17 1TW

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Dr Richard Gomer BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (he/him)

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Agency-oriented Design
  • Data Institutions

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.c.gomer@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Robert Johns

Professor of Politics

Research interests

  • Public opinion
  • British and especially Scottish elections
  • Political psychology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Russell Bentley

Professorial Fellow-Education

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.k.bentley@soton.ac.uk

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

Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
  • humanitarianism 
  • political participation

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: silke.roth@soton.ac.uk

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

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Dr Steve Taylor

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Email: s.j.taylor@soton.ac.uk

Address: B13, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
  • Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte PhD, MSc, MA(Hons)

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • experimental methods
  • political sociology
  • LGBTQ+ politics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.turnbull-dugarte@soton.ac.uk

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

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Professor Sunil Manghani

Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique

Research interests

  • Visual Art & Culture
  • Image Studies
  • Critical Theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.manghani@soton.ac.uk

Address: Satellite - Park Avenue, Winchester, SO23 8DL

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Mr Tanay Gandhi BA, LL.B. (Hons.), MA

Research interests

  • 20th Century French post-foundational philosophy; especially, Ranciere, Foucault, and Merleau-Ponty
  • Decolonial and Black radical traditions of thought and approaches to political theory
  • Philosophical aesthetics; from 18th Century German aesthetic theory to contemporary approaches

Email: t.gandhi@soton.ac.uk

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

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