Dr Mark Devenney coordinates Radical Futures research at the University and this Understanding Radical Politics research. He has published widely in critical theory, including work on suicide bombing, improper forms of politics, political representation and the politics of equality.
Dr Francesca Burke researches the politics and international relations of the Middle East. More specifically, she has research interests in social movements (particularly those mobilising in contexts of state repression) and nationalism in the region, as well as a particular focus on the relationship between political activism and higher education.
Dr Robin Dunford focuses on interdisciplinary work falling into four areas: human rights and the politics of resistance; ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the responsibility to protect; decolonial global ethics and law, ethics and democracy.
Dr Clare Woodford works at the interstices of political philosophy, poststructuralism and democratic theory. Questioning the division between theory and practice, passivity and action, she rethinks ethics, education, literature and aesthetics for a powerful conceptualization of democracy as ongoing egalitarian emancipatory struggle.
Dr Michael Neu researches in political and moral philosophy, with special interests in the politics and ethics of violence. He publishes on contemporary just war theory, the ‘Responsibility to Protect’, sweatshops, torture and the notion of ‘complicity’. His future research will be on ‘friendship’.
Dr Andy Knott works in political theory, with a specific interest in political subjects, especially individualism and the people of populism, as well as debates across contemporary democratic theory.
German Primera focuses on the relationship between politics, life and violence. Drawing upon the works of Michel Foucault, Nikolas Rose, Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben among others, he approaches questions surrounding the way in which biological life enters the political terrain, recasting the very nature of political power.
Dr Rebecca Searle is a historian whose work focuses on the ways in which the study of the past can be used to make critical interventions in the politics of the present.Her research interests include the history of the housing crisis; the global history of contemporary capitalism; the history of twentieth century Britain; and war and conflict in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Dr Zöe Sutherland’s main research is on the politics and aesthetics of contemporary artistic practice, focusing on the complex ‘global’ character of this period. Zöe also writes about feminist theory and practice, focusing on issues of gender, social reproduction, reproductive labour and reproductive technologies. Her broader research interests include continental philosophy, critical theory, the global history of contemporary capitalism and historical forms of radical and revolutionary politics.
Dr Vasileios Leontitsis‘ predominant research interests lie in the spheres of post-development, the EU and Greek politics. He has published on decentralisation in Greece, the EU environmental policy and the process of Europeanisation.
Dr Tom Bunyard has primary research interests focused on the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, and on Debord’s central concept of ‘spectacle’. More broadly, his interests include: Marx and Marxism; Hegelian philosophy; existentialism; aesthetics and the avant-garde; continental philosophy; cultural and critical theory; philosophy of history.
Dr Zeina El Maasri works in cultural studies, critical history and politics with special interests in Middle East Studies and in global art and design history. Zeina’s research investigates the intersections of visual culture, design and political conflict, with a particular attention on Lebanon and the Arab world. Her work is historically focused on post-1945 struggles for decolonization, transnational anti-imperialist solidarities and violent conflicts, as complicated by a global Cold War order.
Julia Hartviksen
