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Doctoral researchers in Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:

  • Jonathan Mueller

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: A Harmony of Opposition: Poetry and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues.

  • Lenhardt Stevens

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: The Metaphysics and Psychology of Freedom of Paradise Lost.

  • Fady Gamal Atallah

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Interrelation between Film, Philosophy and Anti-Realism in Scandinavian Cinema (as a representative case study).

  • Thomas Chesworth

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: A genealogy of alienation in post-Beauvoirian philosophies of gender.

  • Jens Garrelfs

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Complicit narratives - a fictional investigation of the Volkswagen emissions scandal

  • Mike Brownnutt

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: The role of quasi-objects in understanding science, religion, and their engagement.

  • Saarah Bokhari

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: How does the concept of a militarised endeavour shed light on the spiritual philosophy of Greater Jihad in Islam? A Shia Exegesis.

  • Chris Lord

    Doctoral Researcher

    PhD title: Quaker understanding of non-human animals: insights from a Wittgensteinian analysis.

  • Zoë Simms

    Doctoral Researcher

    PhD title: An examination of whether exposure to Quaker values at school affects adult character.

  • Iain Shaw

    Doctoral Researcher

    PhD title: Ministers' lived experience of the reasons for suffering and evil.