Postgraduate research - Philosophy In 'Postgraduate research' PhD researchPhD research focus Back to 'Philosophy research' 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: Abbas Ahsan Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Islamic Analytic Philosophy Supervisor: Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy Patrick Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: The philosophy of anxiety and its disorders: a reconceptualization Supervisor: Lisa Bortolotti PhD Philosophy Bruce P Blackshaw Doctoral researcher PhD title: A critique of psychological accounts of personhood. Supervisors: Jeremy Williams and Heather Widdows PhD Philosophy Mike Brownnutt Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Role of Quasi-Objects in Understanding Science, Religion, and Their Engagement Supervisors: Dr Stephen Jones, Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy Michael DeVito Doctoral researcher PhD title: Paradoxes & Contradictions: Alternative Approaches to the Foreknowledge and Freedom problem Supervisors: Dr Jussi Suikkanen and Dr Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy Randal Everist Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of God as Embodied and Divine Action Supervisor: Yujin NagasawaPhD Philosophy Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade Doctoral researcher PhD title: Animal rights advocacy, eco-terrorism, and civil disobedience. Supervisors: Heather Widdows and Jeremy Williams Michael Grech Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of time, McTaggart and later-Wittgenstein Supervisor: Nikk Effingham Jerry Henderson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Action and Heaven Supervisor: Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy Valeria Motta Doctoral researcher PhD title: Complex emotions. An embodied approach to explaining lonelinessSupervisor: Lisa BortolottiPhD Philosophy Lucy Prior Doctoral researcher PhD title: Explaining the Youth Anxiety Epidemic: Towards a New Social Theory of Anxiety Supervisor: Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Matthew Broome and Dr Ruth Page PhD Philosophy Andre Rusavuk Doctoral researcher PhD title: Divine Luck: A New Puzzle for Theists Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa, Professor Alastair Wilson PhD Philosophy Reinier Schuur Doctoral researcher PhD title: The problem of normativity and concept validity in psychiatric research Supervisors: Lisa Bortolotti John Stickles Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time on a Perdurance ModelSupervisor: Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy
Abbas Ahsan Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Islamic Analytic Philosophy Supervisor: Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy
Patrick Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: The philosophy of anxiety and its disorders: a reconceptualization Supervisor: Lisa Bortolotti PhD Philosophy
Bruce P Blackshaw Doctoral researcher PhD title: A critique of psychological accounts of personhood. Supervisors: Jeremy Williams and Heather Widdows PhD Philosophy
Mike Brownnutt Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Role of Quasi-Objects in Understanding Science, Religion, and Their Engagement Supervisors: Dr Stephen Jones, Professor Fern Elsdon-Baker, Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy
Michael DeVito Doctoral researcher PhD title: Paradoxes & Contradictions: Alternative Approaches to the Foreknowledge and Freedom problem Supervisors: Dr Jussi Suikkanen and Dr Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy
Randal Everist Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of God as Embodied and Divine Action Supervisor: Yujin NagasawaPhD Philosophy
Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade Doctoral researcher PhD title: Animal rights advocacy, eco-terrorism, and civil disobedience. Supervisors: Heather Widdows and Jeremy Williams
Michael Grech Doctoral researcher PhD title: Philosophy of time, McTaggart and later-Wittgenstein Supervisor: Nikk Effingham
Jerry Henderson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Action and Heaven Supervisor: Professor Yujin Nagasawa PhD Philosophy
Valeria Motta Doctoral researcher PhD title: Complex emotions. An embodied approach to explaining lonelinessSupervisor: Lisa BortolottiPhD Philosophy
Lucy Prior Doctoral researcher PhD title: Explaining the Youth Anxiety Epidemic: Towards a New Social Theory of Anxiety Supervisor: Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Matthew Broome and Dr Ruth Page PhD Philosophy
Andre Rusavuk Doctoral researcher PhD title: Divine Luck: A New Puzzle for Theists Supervisors: Professor Yujin Nagasawa, Professor Alastair Wilson PhD Philosophy
Reinier Schuur Doctoral researcher PhD title: The problem of normativity and concept validity in psychiatric research Supervisors: Lisa Bortolotti
John Stickles Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time on a Perdurance ModelSupervisor: Nikk EffinghamPhD Philosophy