Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Lexi Webster

Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Research interests

  • interdisciplinary transgender and queer studies
  • media, politics, and society
  • corpus linguistics, critical discourse studies, and (socio)cognitive linguistics 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Louise Siddons PhD

Head of Department Art & Media Tech
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Dr Luca Di Gregorio

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Medical and Health Humanities
  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • History and Theory of Psychoanalysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mrs Lucy Msungeni

Research interests

  • Health and safety
  • Education
  • Non-communicable diseases
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Mr Luke Nicholas

Research interests

  • Building Management Systems
  • Energy Systems
  • Sustainability
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Dr Mariana Borges

Lectureship in Politics and Int Relation

Research interests

  • Political Behavior
  • Ethnography
  • Clientelism
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Professor Matt Ryan

Professor

Research interests

  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Max Stafford

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • The role, evolution, influence and significance of the Downing Street Chief-of-Staff (1997-pr…
  • Leadership of directly-elected mayors

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Ms Melyssa Ortiz

Research interests

  • AI Governance
  • Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence
  • AI Regulation and Policy
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