PhD Supervisors - Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Before applying please scrutinise the research areas of PPR staff, in order to satisfy yourself that PPR at Lancaster University is the right department for you.
You may already have an idea of which member of PPR you would like to work with, but, even so, it’s worth familiarising yourself with the type of research we do. While members of staff welcome informal contacts from potential PhD students to discuss proposed research, applications will not be considered until they are submitted with full documentation via the online system.
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I am interested in supervising research proposals in the following areas : Sovereignty and legitimacy in the Middle East, construction of masculinism and natioanlism in the Arab world, roots of sectarianism in Arab societies, women rights and state-building in the Arab world.
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas: social movements; transnational activism; diaspora; political Islam; state-society relations; revolutions; ideology; MENA region.
Political Theory; Enlightenment Thought; Democracy; Public Administration;E democracy; Engaged Government
I would be happy to supervise doctoral students working in the following areas - Hinduism, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, Hindu ethics, Buddhist ethics, comparative philosophy, Indian secularism, gender and South Asian religions, religion and narrative in South Asia.
Asia-Pacific regional politics; international relations Chinese politics and foreign policy; Chinese Communist Party history; Chinese internet; public opinion
The good life/well-being/welfare. The self. Life in time. The philosophy of war. The philosophy of work and the workplace. Literature and/as philosophy.
Philosophy of science and medicine.
Especially philosophy of psychiatry; the nature of disease; metaphysics and epistemology of medicine; classification in science.
Border and migration policy, critical migration studies, human rights, citizenship and non-citizenship in the European Union, securitization and the governance of borders.
UK Politics, in the following categories:
Political parties
Political ideology, particularly conservatism
Political culture
Philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, analytic philosophy of religion, Stebbing, Ryle, Austin, Dennett
I am happy to supervise projects related to my field of research (c.f. above), in particular on maritime/naval affairs; ocean governance; the concept of seapower; climate change and maritime security; the maritime dimension of Global Britain; IR theories in a cross-disciplinary setting. I am open to inter/cross-disciplinary projects including (but not limited to) international relations, political science, security studies, history, human geography, corpus linguistics, and marine science.
I am happy to supervise research projects related to my research field (see above), in particular: environmental politics, climate politics, sustainable development, ocean governance, Indigenous peoples. I am open to inter/cross-disciplinary projects (e.g. international relations, political science, human geography); as well as to a wide-range of qualitative methods (e.g. discourse analysis, photo elicitation, etc.)
He is interested in supervising PhD students in the following broad areas:
- European Union politics and policy
-Social and health policy
-International Political Economy
-Complexity, politics and public policy
-Scandinavian politics and policy
The politics of social movements, civil society, NGOs, trade unions in the UK, Syria, Argentina, Ecuador, Kenya and South Africa.
Gavin Hyman welcomes research proposals in the following areas, broadly conceived: Christian studies: theological, philosophical and historical approaches; Philosophy and religious thought; Postmodernism, theology and ethics; Continental philosophy; Religion and Psychoanalytic Thought.
I welcome potential doctoral students in the following research areas: Christian Theology, Recent trends in World Christianity, Globalisation and Christianity, Contextual and Practical Theology, Issues of Immigration and Diaspora in Christianity, Christianity: Tradition and Transformations, Dalit Studies, Postcolonial Approaches in Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, Liberation Theologies, Christianity and other Religions, Religion and Politics in South Asia, Anthropology of Christianity
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Japan; Buddhist issues in the contemporary world; Buddhist nuns and female monasticism; Buddhism and the political process; spiritual well-being and the application of mindfulness in Asian societies; anthropology of Buddhism
EU foreign policy towards Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine EU-Russian Diplomatic Relations, EU-Russian Energy Policy European Neighbourhood Policy Security and Defence Policy Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
I am interested in supervising projects on the following areas: sectarianism, sovereignty, nomos, the state, desectarianization, space, and urban politics.
I am taking early retirement in 2023, so will be unable to take on PhD supervision.
US Foreign Policy, US Politics, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Military Interventions in the Middle East
I welcome promising committed research students with original and innovative ideas in any of these broad areas:
- Radical Nationalism
- Religious Extremism
- Political Violence
- Conflict Management in Divided Societies
My research interests include: International Political Economy, state theory, liberalism and neoliberalism, future of work and automation, post-industrial transformations of capitalism, French politics, Marxism and value theory
Qur'anic commentary (Tafsir)
Modern Interpretation of the Qur'an
Islamic Ritual Jurisprudence
Muslims in Britain
Gender and Islam
I would be happy to supervise doctoral research in the following areas: drugs and culture; mysticism and altered states of consciousness; modern occultism; popular music; countercultures.
Indian Philosophy - classical and modern, especially in: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness studies
Comparative Philosophy, especially Indian and Western: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness studies,and political thought
Comparative Hindu and Christian theology
Hinduism
Indian Buddhism
Religion and politics: South Asia, and comparative studies
Indian diaspora
Multiculturalism and British society
I am co-supervising one student working on Nyāya (Indian Logic). I am open to supervising students working on goddess traditions in South and South East Asia, early South Asian poetry and drama, especially classical Sanskrit poetry and aesthetics, literary cultures, politics, and religious history.
Philosophy of mind, especially perception; ethical theory, especially expressivism; metaphysics, especially the nature of events and causation; theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, especially underdetermination, scepticism and the nature of belief; philosophy of language, especially the nature of truth; early modern philosophy, especially Locke and Kant.
Human Reproduction - ethics and regulation of
Organ Donation - ethics and regulation of
I have research interests across normative ethics, political theory and applied ethics (especially public health). I would be glad to hear from potential doctoral students considering research on Kant's practical philosophy, Hannah Arendt, the political theory of corporations (business or otherwise), the philosophy of responsibility, and public health (especially in the areas of food and noncommunicable disease).
• China’s domestic politics • China’s international politics • EU-China relations, US-China relations • High technology policy