Centre for Democratic Futures

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Lexi Webster

Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Research interests

  • interdisciplinary transgender and queer studies
  • media, politics, and society
  • corpus linguistics, critical discourse studies, and (socio)cognitive linguistics 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Lexi

Professor Louise Siddons PhD

Professor of Visual Politics
Connect with Louise

Dr Luca Di Gregorio

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Medical and Health Humanities
  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • History and Theory of Psychoanalysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Luca

Mrs Lucy Msungeni

Research interests

  • Health and safety
  • Education
  • Non-communicable diseases
Connect with Lucy

Mr Luke Nicholas

Research interests

  • Building Management Systems
  • Energy Systems
  • Sustainability
Connect with Luke

Dr Mariana Borges

Lectureship in Politics and Int Relation

Research interests

  • Political Behavior
  • Ethnography
  • Clientelism
Connect with Mariana

Professor Matt Ryan

Professor

Research interests

  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Matt

Dr Max Stafford

Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • The role, evolution, influence and significance of the Downing Street Chief-of-Staff (1997-pr…
  • Leadership of directly-elected mayors

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Max

Ms Melyssa Ortiz

Research interests

  • AI Governance
  • Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence
  • AI Regulation and Policy
Connect with Melyssa