I joined the University of Reading in September 2018 as a Lecturer in Political Theory. Prior to that I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. I hold a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. I have also worked in applied social research.
My current research focuses on two main areas. First, I am interested in questions of justice and risk: What is it like to experience risk or insecurity, and how does foregrounding this issue shape our thinking about the demands of social justice? Second, I address problems of method in political theory. For e…
I joined the University of Reading in September 2018 as a Lecturer in Political Theory. Prior to that I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. I hold a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. I have also worked in applied social research.
My current research focuses on two main areas. First, I am interested in questions of justice and risk: What is it like to experience risk or insecurity, and how does foregrounding this issue shape our thinking about the demands of social justice? Second, I address problems of method in political theory. For example, what kind of role should evidence about public opinion play in normative political theory? How should we understand and evaluate recent calls for more 'realistic' approaches to the discipline? Some of my current research integrates philosophical argument with in-depth analysis of quantitative evidence – with the aim of generating payoffs for both normative theory and empirical enquiry.
