Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Dr Christopher Lloyd MSci, MSc, PhD, FGS

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • GIS and Remote Sensing
  • Open Source Geospatial Tools
  • Building Classification using Machine Learning
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Dr Claire Clarkin

Assoc Prof in Develpmtl & Skeltl Biology
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Professor Claire Le Foll

Professor

Research interests

  • History and culture of Jews in Belarus from 1772 to 1939, including Belarusian-Jewish relations
  • Jewish art in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Belarus and Ukraine
  • Nationalities policy in the Russian/Soviet western borderlands

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Daniel Devine

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Public opinion
  • Voting behaviour
  • Political psychology

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Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Declan Doyle

Senior Teaching Fellow
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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 

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Professor Dianna Smith

Professor

Research interests

  • Small-area estimation for policy analysis

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Dr Dimitra Gkitsa

Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leader

Research interests

  • Curatorial practices and discourse
  • Collective and cultural memory 
  • Arts infrastructure in spaces of tranisition and difficult pasts

Accepting applications from PhD students

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