Centre for Democratic Futures

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Professor Stuart Middleton

Professor

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models
  • Human-in-the-loop LLMs: Rationale-based learning, Active learning, Adversarial defence, Adver…
  • Information Extraction: Text/Behaviour classification, Few/Zero shot learning, Location extra…

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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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Professor Teresa Dillon

Professor, Art, Media & Spatial Practice
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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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Mr Tim LeRoy

Teaching Fellow
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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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Dr Triana Amen

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Biology

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Dr Valentina Cardo

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

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Dr Valentina Di Iasio

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Economics of Migration 
  • Development Economics
  • Economic Geography
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