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Providing an active forum for education and research in political theory, MANCEPT is one of the largest and strongest groupings of its kind in the UK, with a long tradition of international excellence. Its core membership includes teaching and research staff as well as postgraduate students. Members’ research interests cover a wide range of topics in contemporary political theory, making use of the tools of analytical political theory to address theoretical issues and their real-world implications.<\/p>\n
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Email: <\/b>maurits.bekkers@manchester.ac.uk<\/p>\n I am a Political Theory PhD student, funded by the School of Social Sciences. My research interests are existentialism, political and social theory, authenticity, social capital theory, and moral grandstanding. My project is supervised by Prof Miriam Ronzoni and Dr Clara Sandelind (The University of Manchester), and Prof Patrick Baert (The University of Cambridge).<\/p>\n I have also undertaken research for the project “Rebuilding Democratic Discourse: Online Harms and Trust\u201d, funded by Centre for Digital Trust and Security (The University of Manchester) under the supervision of Mihaela Popa-Wyatt; and I am a co-organiser of the MANCEPT Workshops & Brave New World conferences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Teaching<\/b><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n University of Manchester<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n POLI20961: Injustice and Resistance (2022-2023 & 2023-2024) University of Cambridge<\/p>\n <\/b><\/b>HSPS Tripos Part IIA, Soc 2 – Social Theory (2024-2025).<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Jonathan Benson” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role<\/span><\/b>: Hallsworth Research Fellow Email<\/span><\/b>: <\/span>j.benson@manchester.ac.uk<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n I joined the University of Manchester as a Hallsworth Fellow in February 2022 and am based in the Department of Politics. I received my PhD in Politics from Manchester and have previously held the position of Lecturer\/Assistant Professor at both King\u2019s College London and Utrecht University. My research is situated in political theory and economy, and my work has a strong connection to the interdisciplinary tradition of politics, philosophy and economics. <\/span><\/p>\n Research Focus<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n For further details and a list of publications please see my <\/span>webpage<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Richard Child” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>richard.child@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Tel: <\/strong>0161 2754978<\/p>\n Office: <\/strong>4.034 Arthur Lewis Building<\/p>\n I\u2019m interested in all areas of Analytical Political Philosophy but my research currently focuses on theories of global justice, theories of punishment, and the relationship between justice and legitimacy.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Steve De Wijze” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>stephen.a.de-wijze@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Tel: <\/strong>0161 275-4882<\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>Arthur Lewis Building-4.053 Philosophy and politics focusing on the following areas:<\/p>\n The interface between ethical constraints and effective political action, the problem of dirty hands and a political ethic.Anglo-American theories of justice \u2013 Rawls, Dworkin, Sandel, Walzer etc.Informal logic and argumentation theory.Democracy \u2013 theory and practice.Theories of secular accounts of evil.<\/p>\n I am currently finishing a manuscript on the problem of \u2018dirty hands\u2019.I co-editor the journal Representation<\/em> (with Andrew Russell)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Vittorio Gerosa” open=”on” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Admin:<\/strong> MANCEPT Workshops Organiser 2019, 2020, 2021<\/p>\n Mail: <\/strong>vittorio.gerosaATmanchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Political and Democratic Theory, Deliberative Democracy, Deliberative Systems, Neo-Republicanism, Pragmatism<\/span><\/p>\n PhD Politics, University of Manchester; MA \u2013 Philosophy and Political Theory, University of Manchester; MA \u2013 Philosophical Methods, University of Genoa; BA \u2013 Philosphy, University of Genoa.<\/p>\n 2017 – 2018 \u2013 Teaching Assistant, \u201cChallenges to Democratic Politics\u201d, University of Manchester, Second year undergraduate course.<\/p>\n 2018 – 2019 – Teaching Assistant, \u201cChallenges to Democratic Politics\u201d, University of Manchester, Second year undergraduate course.<\/p>\n 2019 – 2020 – Teaching Assistant, “Ideals of Social Justice”, University of Manchester, Second year undergraduate course.<\/p>\n 2021 – Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Political Theory”, University of Manchester, First year undergraduate course.<\/p>\n 2021-2022 – Teaching Associate – Political Theory<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Stephen Hood” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role: <\/strong>Lecturer in Political Theory<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>stephen.hood@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Tel: <\/strong>0161 3066929<\/p>\n Office: <\/strong>2.029 Arthur Lewis Building<\/p>\n The main theme of my research is an evaluation of key socio-economic institutions, informed by liberal theories of distributive justice. In particular, I am interested in the role played by markets in the coordination of productive activity. I therefore focus closely upon questions relating to the appropriate scope and functioning of market institutions, and to potential conflicts between commercial behaviour or attitudes and that necessary to ensure the stability of a just society. Beyond this, I also have interests in democratic theory and the debate over ideal and nonideal theory.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Yonghao Huang” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Email: yonghao.huang@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk I am a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester. I am working on a project about how Liberal Democracy should defend itself from the challenges of illiberal without violating liberal commitments and principles, involving the debate between moralism and realism, which aims at providing a solution for the effective self-defence of liberal democracy but also responding to the theoretical opponents and practical demands of political liberalism. My project supervised by Professor James Pattison and Dr Jonathan Benson, is based in the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n My research mainly focuses on contemporary political philosophy\/theory, particularly on liberal theory, Rawlsian Political Liberalism, debates on the nature and normative source of politics (political moralism and realism) and democratic self-defence. The topics that interest me include (but are not limited to) Political legitimacy, Democracy back-sliding, Political polarization, Ideal and Non-ideal theory, Pluralism and Agonism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Karolina Jedrzejczak” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n I am a PhD student at the University of Manchester. My research interests revolve around broadly understood democratic theory – in particular, challenges faced by modern liberal democracies. Currently, I am working on a reconceptualisation of liberal democracy which will be better equipped to encompass debates on the democratic crisis. <\/p>\n I have also been a Teaching Assistant on the first-year course POLI10702 Introduction to Political Theory. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Tim Kenyon” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n I have a long-standing association with Mancept. Previously I taught at the universities of Warwick, Liverpool, Manchester and York. I have also held research fellowships at Warwick, Liverpool and Manchester. For a considerable period of my career I worked across a number of areas of \u2018government\u2019 in the field of \u2018public policy\u2019, including within the Whitehall\/Westminster sphere.<\/p>\n The major focus of my attention is to progress a book on labour\u2019s entitlement to the product as a dimension of social justice with particular reference to \u2018Ricardian Socialism\u2019 \/ \u2018left-libertarianism\u2019 . This examines the manner in which 3 major traditions of thought (natural rights, political economy\/utilitarianism and communitarianism) found expression in the efforts of the respective ‘Ricardian Socialists’ (Bray, Gray, Hodgskin, Thompson) to identify principles of distributive justice at a time of radical change in the processes of production and of population increase and dislocation. The project focus in particular upon the challenge represented by inter-generational factors and seeks to evaluate the extent to which the thinkers in question not only worked within evolving traditions but also anticipated unresolved issues that remain pertinent to this day. Several \u2018themes\u2019 pervade the project, most notably: (i) the inter-relationship between political economy and ethics, (ii) the extent to which respective Ricardian Socialist writers anticipated \u2018left-libertarianism\u2019 and (iii) the extent to which their diverse responses to a shared understanding of the predicament of labour says something about liberal pluralism. The methodology combines analytical and contextual approaches.<\/p>\n An attendant exercise is the attempt to write something , that might well be aimed at a more popular audience, dealing with inter-generational entitlements and access to markets (including the labour market).<\/p>\n Related but more tenuously is a long-standing interest in William Paley \u2013 an engagement motivated in part by the opportunity to access Paley’s private library.<\/p>\n I am the author of Utopian Communism and Political Thought in Early Modern England<\/em> and am the editor of The Ricardian Socialists: Collected Works <\/em>(inc. an extended introduction). Besides having articles published in a number of journals (History of Political Thought<\/u>, Teaching Politics<\/u>, Political Studies<\/u>, Journal of the History of Philosophy<\/u>, History of European Ideas<\/u>, Politics<\/u>, Government and Opposition<\/u>, Contemporary Political Studies<\/u>) I have contributed to numerous edited collections.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Davide Pala” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n E-mail:<\/strong> davide.pala-2@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n I am a PhD candidate at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester. In my research, I try to develop a republican approach to human rights. In particular, my research focuses on the foundation of human rights from a republican perspective, on the precise content of such human rights, and on the institutions required to realise them. <\/p>\n Supervisors:<\/strong> Miriam Ronzoni & Christian Schemmel<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”James Pattison” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n James Pattison is a Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. His work focuses on ethical issues in international politics, with research expertise on humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect (R2P), Just War Theory, private security, and the alternatives to war (e.g. sanctions). He has written three books (all with Oxford University Press) and published in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Ethics & International Affairs,<\/em> European Journal of International Relations<\/em>, International Studies Quarterly<\/em>, Journal of Political Philosophy<\/em>, and Review of International Studies<\/em>. He is currently working on two projects: (1) the ethics of prioritising global responsibilities and (2) international ethics in a post-liberal order. He also co-edits a book series on War, Conflict, and Ethics for Routledge.<\/p>\n Email:<\/strong> james.pattison@manchester.ac.uk<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Matthew Perry” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Research Interests:<\/strong> I am particularly interested in questions of moral status, equality and basic rights, with an emphasise on the rights of animals. My thesis investigates the notion of Dignity as a grounding for basic\/”human” rights. I argue that Dignity should not be restricted to humans and develop an account of Dignity which can apply to nonhuman animals. I also have interest in: applied political theory, ideal and real world political theory, social and legal policy, environmental justice, animal ethics, social justice, feminism, racism, anarchism, meta-ethics, human rights and theories of knowledge.<\/p>\n Teaching: <\/strong>I have taught on three political theory modules: Introduction to Political Theory (1st Year), Ideals of Social Justice (2nd Year) and Challenges for Democratic Politics (2nd Year). I have also conducted several workshops aimed at students from underrepresented backgrounds as a part of my Widening Participation Fellow role.<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>matthew.perry@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.matthewwrayperry.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Dennis Pirdzuns” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Studies<\/strong>: I have received my MA in Philosophy and Political Theory from the University of Manchester, and my BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wuppertal.<\/p>\n Research<\/strong>: For my PhD, I look into possible connections between sufficiency-focussed theories of justice and suffering-focussed theories of ethics. Both approaches, I believe, can illuminate the political problem of poverty, and support the notion of a special moral urgency to aid those affected by deprivation. More generally, I am interested in normative ethics (esp. consequentialist theories), distributive justice (esp. axiological & teleological approaches), value theory (esp. welfarist theories), as well as 19th<\/sup> century moral and political thought (esp. J.S. Mill).<\/p>\n Supervisors<\/strong>: Liam Shields & Juri Viehoff<\/p>\n Teaching<\/strong>: As Teaching Assistant, I have taught the following undergraduate tutorials:<\/p>\n I have also conducted the following workshop formats:<\/p>\n Email<\/strong>: dennis.pirdzuns@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Costanza Porro” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Molly Powell” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n My research focuses on digital privacy rights, technological solutions and state obligations. I consider both conceptual and normative aspects of privacy theory, as well as how these translate into more practical questions of policy. I also consider both how novel technologies shape our shifting understandings of privacy, often causing new types of problems, and potentially also form the basis of solutions.<\/p>\n Supervisors<\/strong>: Miriam Ronzoni and Richard Child<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Miriam Ronzoni” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role: <\/strong>Reader in Political Theory<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>miriam.ronzoni@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Location: <\/strong>Arthur Lewis Building [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Clara Sandelind” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>clara.sandelind@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n My main research focus is the politics of migration, asylum and nationalism. I\u2019m also interested in methodological questions in political theory, approaches to justice\/injustice, feminism, as well as the history and theories of liberalism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Christian Schemmel” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role: <\/strong>Lecturer in Political Theory<\/p>\n Email<\/strong>: christian.schemmel@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Tel.<\/strong>: 0161 2754771<\/p>\n Office: <\/strong>4.005 Arthur Lewis Building<\/p>\n Personal website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n University of Manchester I am a founding member, and currently Chair, of the Global Justice Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Liam Shields” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role: <\/strong>Senior <\/strong>Lecturer in Political Theory<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>liam.shields@manchester.ac.uk<\/p>\n Personal Website: <\/strong>www.liamshields.com<\/a><\/p>\n I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory working at the University of Manchester. I have research and teaching interests across contemporary political theory, and especially in the areas of distributive justice, equality of opportunity and education, and the distribution of parental rights. In my research and teaching I use the methods of analytic political theory to shed light on important and pressing practical debates about real world problems. For more information about my research and working papers see my personal website.<\/p>\n I have taught on a wide range of courses at undergraduate and graduate level. The courses for which I am primarily responsible are:<\/p>\n You can download the teaching and study materials<\/a> I have created.<\/p>\n I would be pleased to provide doctoral supervision on justice and the family\/children, sufficientarianism and its rivals, and more generally on distributive justice. Prospective doctoral students are welcome to contact me via email.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title=”Timothy Siew”]<\/p>\n I am a doctoral researcher in democratic theory, and particularly interested in ideas surrounding justice, egalitarianism, pluralism, and agonism. Currently, my research focuses on how we might have a non-marginalising democratic arrangement that respects the moral equality of a plural citizenry. My project is supervised by Prof Miriam Ronzoni and Dr Christian Schemmel. <\/p>\n I am also an editor at the postgraduate politics journal (Political Perspectives<\/em>), a teaching assistant on POLI10702 (Introduction to Political Theory), and co-organiser of the 2025 Brave New World conference.<\/p>\n Email: <\/b>weibintimothy.siew@manchester.ac.uk<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Hillel Steiner” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role: <\/strong>Emeritus Professor<\/p>\n Email: <\/strong>hillel.steiner@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> Arthur Lewis Building School of Social Sciences The University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL<\/p>\n Hillel Steiner is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Juri Viehoff” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Riki Yamochi” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n Role:<\/strong> Doctoral Researcher<\/p>\n My research focuses on how just war theory is influenced by the analogy between states and persons. 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PHIL23022: Marx and Hegel (2022-2023)
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The University of Manchester
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I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at MANCEPT. Before joining the University of Manchester, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Hamburg. I obtained my PhD from the Dickson Poon School of Law of King\u2019s College London. My research interests are at the intersection between moral, legal, political and feminist philosophy with a focus on moral and relational equality, the philosophy of vulnerability, the ethics and politics of care and the philosophy of criminal punishment. My current project explores how the fact of our need to receive and provide care shapes the way in which we should conceive an egalitarian society. <\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2022\/03\/Molly-Powell-professional-photo-300x300.jpg\")
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The University of Manchester
Manchester
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in 1999. A Canadian, he originally came to Britain to do his PhD here and has been on the faculty at Manchester ever since.The main focus of Hillel\u2019s teaching and publications is contemporary philosophical work on freedom, rights and social justice. His major work is An Essay on Rights which won the Political Studies Association\u2019s best book prize for 1994 and which advances a theory of distributive justice that has come to be known as left-libertarianism.He has held awards from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, and has delivered numerous lectures on his research at universities and conferences in Britain and abroad.His organisational memberships include ones in the American Philosophical Association, Aristotelian Society, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Political Studies Association, Society for Applied Philosophy, and the September Group.<\/p>\nResearch interests
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