Dr Robert Lamb

Biography

I was born and raised in the west of Scotland and am of partly Italian extraction. I read Politics and History as an undergraduate and then Political Philosophy at Masters level before coming to Exeter in October 2002 to write a PhD - on conceptions of equality in the political theories of Thomas Paine and William Godwin - under the supervision of Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk. In August 2006 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Political Philosophy (jointly with the Department of Sociology and Philosophy, where I do much of my undergraduate teaching) and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009. I have held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley (Center for British Studies, Autumn 2007) and the University of St. Andrews (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring 2010).