• PhD. Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2007.
• Taught M.A., Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2001.
• Joint Honours B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2000.

I studied at the University of Leeds, as well as worked there as a teaching assisstant and as the administrator for the CMM (Centre of Metaphysics and Mind.) I moved to Glasgow to take up a one-year temporary teaching post before then taking another temporary post at the University of Birmingham. I was made permanent the year after.

I teach both metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. 

I currently supervise doctoral candidates researching areas including metaontology, ontology, the philosophy of time, and the philosophy of mind. I can supervise theses in a wide variety of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics and many areas of philosophy of religion, science and mind. 

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Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

I’m currently completing the final draft of a book on the philosophy of time travel. 

Personal website: https://nikkeffingham.weebly.com/

• The Metaphysics of Time Travel, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (invited submission; due 2018).
• Mereological Nominalism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
• The Philosophy of Filioque, Religious Studies 54 (2018): 297-312
• Multiple Studies and Weak Evidential Defeat, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38, 353-66 (co-authored with Malcolm James Price).
• The Location of Properties, Noûs 49 (2015): 643-66.
• Properties are Potatoes: An essay on ontological parsimony, in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods ed. Chris Daly (2015): 282-305.
• Multiple Location and Christian Philosophical Theology, Faith and Philosophy 32 (2015): 25-44.
• Contemporary Philosophy, in Time Travel in the Media: Philosophy and Theory ed. Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod (2015): 20-34.
• Harmoniously Investigating Concrete Structures, Thought 2 (2013): 190-95.
• Impure Sets May Be Located: A reply to Cook, Thought 1 (2013): 330-36.
• An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis, Synthese 184 (2012): 375-86.
• Talking about something (but really talking about nothing), Analysis 72 (2012): 329-40.
• Endurantism and Perdurantism, in Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson and Barnard (2012): 179-97.
• Undermining Motivations for Universalism, Noûs 45 (2011): 696-713.
• Sider, Hawley, Sider and the Vagueness Argument, Philosophical Studies 154 (2011): 241-50.
• Temporal Parts and Time Travel, Erkenntnis 74 (2011): 225-40.
• Universalism and Classes, dialectica 65 (2011): 451-72.
• The Metaphysics of Groups, Philosophical Studies 149 (2010): 251-67.
• Mereological Explanation and Time Travel, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 333-45.
• Universalism, Vagueness and Supersubstantivalism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009): 35-42.
• Composition, Persistence and Identity, in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. Le Poidevin, Simons, McGonigal and Cameron (2009): 296-309.
• A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 633-40 (co-authored with Jon Robson).
• Endurantism and Timeless Worlds, Analysis 67 (2007): 140-7 (co-authored with Joseph Melia).