Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
MANCEPT, University of Manchester.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at MANCEPT, Department of Politics, University of Manchester. My work focuses mainly on theories of justice and equality, including interdisciplinary and applied elements connecting to political economy, sociology, and moral psychology.
Before joining the University of Manchester, I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies “Justitia Amplificata – Rethinking Justice”, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.
I hold a DPhil and an MSc in Political Theory from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Philosophy and Law from the University of Freiburg.
I am also a founding member of The Global Justice Network, which I have chaired between 2012 and 2018, and a founding editor of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.
New Article published in the American Political Science Review
In this article, Georg Picot and I develop a new, recognition-theoretic justification for minimum wages as expressing respect for social contributions, as part of a broader idea of economic citizenship.
New Article on Proxy Votes for Childen
A new article for The Conversation, entitled “Votes for Kids: Why We Should be Giving Kids a Say in Elections,” explores the idea of proxy votes for children below the voting age.
New Research Project on Social Inequality
I am leading a new research project on “Analysing and Critiquing Relations of Inequality”, supported by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester. This project focuses on relations of inequality in contemporary, economically advanced societies, and especially on issues of justice and equality between different generations, and the nature and impact of inequalities of social class.
