Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Mrs Krishnaveni KS

Senior Research Assistant
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Mrs Kristina Risley FCIPD, FHEA, GMBPsS

Research interests

  • Gamification and serious games for leadership development
  • Soft skills development in leadership
  • Psychometric tools for leadership development
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Ms Kubra Yildiz

Research interests

  • Public International Law
  • Armed Conflict
  • Use of Force
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Dr Kyle Bottrill

Senior Research Fellow – ORC advanced

Research interests

  • Optical technologies
  • Wideband transmission on a hollow-core fiber
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Professor Kyriaki (Kiki) Messiou

Professor of Education

Research interests

  • inclusive education
  • marginalisation in schools
  • research with children and young people

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lala Muradova PhD

Associate Professor in Pol. Psychology

Research interests

  • democracy
  • emotions in politics
  • democratic legitimacy

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Ms Laura Bea

Research interests

  • PhD Student; Network Manager for Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) 
  • Supervisors: Dr John Boswell (FSS) & Dr Stephanie Jones (FAH)
  • The relationship between literary studies and policymaking   
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Miss Laura Smith

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Dr Leonardo Aniello

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Blockchain-based Systems
  • Distributed Systems
  • Machine Learning applied to Cyber Security
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Professor Leslie Carr

Professor of Web Science
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