Research

My research focuses on the following areas:

• Theories of social/distributive justice and equality
• Liberalism and republicanism
• The intersection of political theory and political economy
• Theories of social class
• Self-respect and other self-evaluative attitudes
• International and global justice, including EU justice

I am interested in supervising doctoral research in all areas of contemporary normative political theory, and in specific areas in the history of political thought: the history of liberalism, republicanism, and social democracy. 

Currently, I am working on two book projects: 

•  on recognition theory and work – different forms of recognition for social contribution, and their importance for an idea of economic citizenship, with a special focus on the recognitional dimension of wage policies (continuing work begun as an ISRF Political Economy Fellow);
• on theories of social class, and class ‘habitus’ (Bourdieu), and equality and autonomy (supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship on “Relational Equality and Social Class”) – how social class inequality distorts our perception of social life and our evaluations of ourselves and others, undermining truthful social relations and, thereby, our autonomy.

Justice and Egalitarian Relations develops a liberal conception of relational equality, which understands equal non-domination and prevention of inegalitarian norms of social status as stringent demands of social justice, and explores its implications for political equality, distributive justice, and health and healthcare.