Centre for Democratic Futures

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Dr Michael Da Silva

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Constitutional and administrative law
  • Legal and political philosophy
  • Health law, policy, and ethics

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen, SFHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

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Professor Mike Grocott BSc MSc MBBS MD FRCA FRCP FFICM GChPOM (ANZCA)

Professor of Anaesthesia & Critical Care

Research interests

  • Perioperative Care, Critical Care, Prehabilitation, Hypoxia, Integrative Physiology, Clinical…

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Miss Mollie Ruler

Research interests

  • Criminal Justice 
  • Prison Reform
  • Public Opinion
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Mr Muhammed Ibrahim

Research interests

  • Climate Change
  • Corporate Governance
  • Sustainability
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Mrs Naomi Clements

Snr Teach Fell in Acdmic Practice (Eval)

Research interests

  • Social JusticeWidening ParticipationEvaluation of education practice and programmesProfession…
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Ms Nawras Ateeq

Research interests

  • Social Entrepreneurship emergence and development
  • Social Entrepreneurship in relation to sustainable development
  • Social Entrepreneurship and system change  
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Professor Nick Clarke

Professor of Political Geography

Research interests

  • I research governance and citizenship, with a focus on three main areas:
  • 1) Innovative responses to globalisation (2004-present). This research has been funded by gra…
  • 2) The challenges presented to representative democracy by the 2007-2008 financial crisis, th…

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Dr Nick Dorward

Lecturer in Human Geography

Research interests

  • Political Geography
  • Urban Studies
  • ¸£Àû×ÅÆ¬ Development 

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Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid

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