Current Research Students

Our research students join our research community through membership of one of our research clusters or the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society. The lists below show our current students grouped by research area.

Aesthetics, Ethics, Environmental and Economic Philosophy and Politics

Name	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Berwin, Bradley	2018	Dr. Simon James	Animal Ethics
Betinsky, Jakub	2017	Dr. Ben Smith	Ethics (moral realism), Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy (virtue ethics), Fact/value Dichotomy, Philosophy of Action, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosophy of language/mind)
Brown, Jasmine	2016	Dr. Ben Smith	Ethics of Care
Brown, Walter	2012	Prof. Geoffrey Scarre	Moral Philosophy
Donovan, Amber	2020	Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill	Moral and Environmental Philosophy: Gaia
Jacob, Salomé	2014	Prof. Andy Hamilton & Dr. Clare MacCumhaill	Philosophy of mind and philosophy of music
Main, Ruby	2019	Prof. Andy Hamilton & Dr. Ben Smith	The other side of the limit: The changing Conception on ‘nonsense’ in Wittgenstein’s early and later work
Marlow-Stevens, Elliot	2018	Prof. Andy Hamilton	Aesthetics of 20th Century Music
Stuart, Richard	2016	Prof. Geoffrey Scarre	Philosophy - The Foundations of Ethics
Sullivan Carr, Aoife	2019	Prof. Geoffrey Scarre & Dr Joe Saunders	Moral Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Violence
Wee, Michael	2020	Prof. Andy Hamilton	Moral Epistemology after Wittgenstein
Yue, Li	2020	Prof. Andy Hamilton	Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Entertainment

Applied Phenomenology

Student	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Fernandez, Anthony	2015	Dr. Simon James	phenomenology and philosophy of science
Large, Lee	2014	Dr. Sylvie Gambaudo	Researching the reproduction of transgender identities in the context of medicalized narratives
Notess, Susan	2017	Dr. Benedict Smith	Ethics and social epistemology, philosophy of listening
Shannon, Nathan	2012	Dr. Simon James	Moral phenomenology

CHESS

Name	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Elliott, Alex	2016	Prof. Nancy Cartwright	Pluralism and realism in the philosophy of science
Fonseca, Alexandre	2017	Prof. Julian Reiss	Philosophy of Economics / Social Sciences
Munslow, Tamlyn	2016	Prof. Nancy Cartwright	Evidence Based Policy
Williams, Richard	2016	Prof. Julian Reiss	Political philosophy and metaphysics

History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Name	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Dunn, Rachel	2009	Dr. Matthew Eddy	Seeing and Believing: John Dalton and the Visual Culture of Experimental Science in British Dissenting Academies, 1770-1820
El-Mawas, Omar	2018	Dr. Peter Vickers & Professor Nancy Cartwright	History and Philosophy of Science
Lauman-Lairson, Jessica	2018	Dr. Sara Uckelman	Logic or Philosophy of Science
Malik, Uzma	2018	Dr. Wendy Parker	Philosophy and Climate Science, Philosophy of Science
Moses, Abigail	2019	Dr. Ben Smith & Dr. Kathy Puddifoot	Philosophy of Psychiatry
Sediva, Lenka	2017	Dr. Matthew Eddy	Visual Culture - History and philosophy of science and medicine
Shepherd, John	2019	Dr. Matthew Eddy & Prof. Holger Maehle	The history of American criminological science, and, more specifically, its interaction with clinical experimental approaches to child psychiatry and psychology from c1900 to 1940
Stoyanov, Rossen	2016	Dr. Peter Vickers	Philosophy and History of Science
Summerton, Nick	2022	Prof. Holger Maehle and Prof. Alex Broadbent	History of Medicine, especially Retrospective Diagnosis

Mind, Language and Metaphysics

Name	Start Year	Supervisor	Research Areas
Aleksiev, Damjan	2019	Dr. Philip Goff	Philosophy of Mind, panpsychism, the transparency of phenomenal concepts, the powerful qualities view
Goz, Zekiye	2018	Dr. Sara Uckelman	The Possibility of Linguistic Creativity in Artificial Intelligence
Pemberton, John	2020	Dr. Matthew Tugby	Metaphysics, Ontology, Change, Powers, Causation, Mereology
Thomas, Andrew	2017	Dr. Sara Uckelman	Non-existence and intentionality
Zhang, Ruoyu	2014	Dr. Peter Vickers	Metaphysics

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