Academic staff
Dr Gabriele Badano
Ethical principles applying to public administration; issues of justice and fairness in resource allocation; liberal theories of public justification and counter-speech.
Professor Monica Brito Vieira
History of political thought and contemporary political theory; Thomas Hobbes; theories of political representation, the history and theory of democracy; populism; theories of rights; constitutionalism; natural law; the materiality of ideas and processes of canon formation.
Professor Sara de Jong
The politics of NGOs and global civil society; migration and refugees; postcolonialism, race and racism; gender, sexuality and feminist politics; the role of brokers in international development; co-optation of radical politics and complicity.
Dr Kieran Durkin
Marx and Marxism; radical humanism; the humanist Marx.
Professor Matthew Festenstein
Political theory and the history of political thought; American pragmatism; multiculturalism; political trust.
Dr Adam Fusco
Political theory; neo-republicanism; non-nomination, democracy and constitutions; structural domination; secession; self-determination; Irish unionist and republican political thought; Northern Ireland constitutional politics.
Dr Ruth Kelly
Cultural politics, citizenship practices, engaged political theory and feminist theory.
Dr Alfred Moore
Deliberative democracy; social epistemology; the politics of expertise, technology and democracy.
Professor Timothy Stanton
Hobbes and Locke; politics and religion; political theology; ideas of civil society and popular sovereignty.
Professor Alan Thomas
Political philosophy; political economy; moral philosophy; and social epistemology.
Dr Sara Van Goozen
Global ethics and contemporary just war theory; political obligation and sovereignty.