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Centre for Democratic Futures
Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Tereza Capelos

Associate Professor in Politics and IR

Research interests

  • Grievance Politics and Resentful Emotionality
  • Emotions and Democratic Politics
  • Reactionism, Radicalism and Political Orientations

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

  • Learning and reasoning under uncertainty
  • AI safety
  • Human-AI collaboration

Accepting applications from PhD students

Mr Tom Price

Dr Valentina Cardo

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Valentina's research interests include:
  • The relationship between citizenship and identity;
  • Political representation;

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Vanissa Wanick

Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design

Research interests

  • Games for change, social good and wellbeing
  • Games Design, Gamification and player experience (e.g., player agency, emerging storytelling)
  • Human behaviour and Interface Design (e.g. rituals, gestures, mental models, values)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Will Jennings

Associate Dean Research & Enterprise

Research interests

  • Public policy
  • Public opinion
  • Polling

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Yasmin Sekhon Dhillon

Associate Dean EDI

Research interests

  • Consumer Research
  • Luxury Consumption
  • Cross-cultural Consumption

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Zacharias Maniadis PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Economics of Science
  • Experimental Economics
  • Game Theory