Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

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Dr Nick Dorward

Lecturer in Human Geography

Research interests

  • Political Geography
  • Urban Studies
  • Global Development 

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Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid

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Dr Nora McIntyre PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Educational effectiveness
  • Educational technology
  • Innovative research methods: eye-tracking, big data

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Dr Nunung Nurul Hidayah

Associate Professor in Accounting

Research interests

  • Ethics and Religion in Organization
  • Audit
  • Islamic Accounting and Finance

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Professor Pamela Ugwudike LLB (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • AI Ethics 
  • Algorithms in Justice Systems
  • Trustworthy and Responsible AI

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Dr Paolo Spada

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Diffusion and impact of governance and social innovations (Democratic Innovations).
  • Combining large surveys, field experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis 

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Dr Paul Bridgen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The impact of the environmental crisis on welfare states
  • Eco-social policy developments - theory and empirical evaluations
  • Energy/fuel poverty in the UK and EU

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Mr Paul Muckelt

Research Fellow
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Dr Pritipuspa Mishra

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Indian history from 1800 to Present
  • India and the British Empire
  • Indian Anti-colonialism

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Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Responsible Research and Innovation of emergent technologies
  • Multimodal machine learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Computational social science

Accepting applications from PhD students

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