Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Professor Silke Roth

Professor of Sociology

Research interests

  • activism and volunteering
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  • political participation

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Dr Steve Taylor

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • risk management
  • cybersecurity
  • trust
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Dr Steven White PhD

Snr Teaching Fellow Ed Development

Research interests

  • Teaching critical thinking and digital literacy
  • Threshold concepts
  • Learning Design
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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

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Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • experimental methods
  • political sociology
  • LGBTQ+ politics

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Professor Sunil Manghani

Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique

Research interests

  • Visual Art & Culture
  • Image Studies
  • Critical Theory

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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
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Professor Tereza Capelos

Professor

Research interests

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

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Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

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

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Mr Tom Price

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