Postgraduate community
Postgrad community
The PhD in Political Theory
The Centre for Political Thought is home to an intellectually vibrant and supportive network of PhD students who benefit from being teaching colleagues as well as fellow researchers. Students pursue a range of research interests, and have excellent facilities in which to discuss topics, texts and thinkers. Theory students are part of a cohort of postgraduate researchers doing work in other research clusters and have ample opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary work. There are many opportunities to develop professionally by participating in conferences, workshops, and the weekly reading group meetings. Doctoral students in political theory also benefit from frequent and supportive contact with the fantastic academic staff here at Exeter.
All PhD students have the opportunity to take on paid employment as teaching assistants during their time at Exeter.
The Centre for Political Thought at Exeter has an outstanding record for the professional placement of completed PhDs.
For information on postgraduate funding click here.
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Name |
Year |
Title |
Supervisors |
Placement |
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Bingshu Zhao |
Current |
Bringing the family back into |
Dario Castiglione and |
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Lingzheng Zeng |
Current |
Isaiah Berlin: Pluralism and Toleration |
Dario Castiglione and Catriona McKinnon |
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Dougie Booth |
Current |
Marxism and Socialist Republicanism |
James Muldoon and Andy Schaap |
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Lewis Cooper |
Current |
To follow |
Andy Schaap and Bice Maiguashca |
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Vivian Hall |
Current |
The Whig Coryphaeus: Walter Moyle |
Ross Carroll |
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Riina Ylinen |
Current |
Hannah Arendt’s capitalism’ and the ‘value of value’ in contemporary India |
Andy Schaap |
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Oliver Roberts-Garratt |
Current |
Foucault, Hyppolite, and the Ineffable |
James Muldoon |
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Current |
Phenomenology and Aging |
Robin Durie |
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Current |
Overturning the Majority |
Andrew Schaap and Alex Prichard |
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Roberto Baccarini |
Current |
The Nature of the EU’s Institutional Structure and its Role in the Response to the Covid-19 Crisis |
Dario Castiglione |
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Yutao Zhao |
2021 |
Self-love and the artificiality of Civil Society: Hobbes, Mandeville and Hume |
Dario Castiglione |
Lecturer, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China) |
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2021 |
The Coordinates of Arendt's thought |
Andrew Schaap and Robin Durie |
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2020 |
Liberalism and Problems with Female Genital Cutting |
Robert Lamb and Andrew Schaap |
Associate Lecturer, Politics, Exeter |
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2019 |
Afghan asylum seekers in the U.K. |
Andrew Schaap |
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2019 |
Marx's "Riddle": Alien Politics in the Thought of Karl Marx |
Iain Hampsher-Monk and Dario Castiglione |
Associate Lecturer, Politics, Exeter |
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2018 |
Rethinking "Flourishing" as an Organic Concept of the Good: The Interpretation of Development and the Evaluation of Life |
Robin Durie and John Dupré |
Associate Lecturer, Politics, Exeter |
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2017 |
Giving Up on the Concept of Representation |
Dario Castiglione |
Partner, Imprint Academic |
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Roberto Baldoli |
2016 |
Aldo Capitini and the Religious Liberation of Nonviolence |
Claudio Raedelli and Andy Schaap |
Associate Researcher, UCL |
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Farhad Kerimov |
2016 |
Pluralism, Discourse, and Democratic Politics |
Andy Schaap and Dario Castiglione |
Head of International and Comparative Politics Department, American University of Central Asia |
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Biao Zhang |
2015 |
Concepts of Rationality in Classical Political Theorists and Their Representations in IR Theory |
Iain Hampsher-Monk and Alex Prichard |
Lecturer, China University of Law and Politics, Beijing (China) |
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2015 |
Popular Sovereignty in Europe |
Dario Castiglione and Nicole Bolleyer |
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University |
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Stuart Ingham |
2015 |
Egalitarianisms and Exploitation |
Robert Lamb |
Deputy Director of Policy at the Labour Party |
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Alexandra Boehme |
2014 |
The Multidimensional Sovereignty of the European Union |
Dario Castiglione |
Senior Associate, EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy |
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Christiane Smith |
2014 |
Articulating Ecological Injustices |
Bice Maiguashca and Andy Schaap |
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Gabriel Thebolt |
2014 |
Reconceptualising Emergent Wholes |
Robin Durie |
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2014 |
The Iraq Enquiries: Publicity, Secrecy, and Liberal Security |
Andy Schaap and John Heathershaw |
Lecturer, University of Exeter |
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Christopher Fear |
2013 |
Concepts of Time and History in Nineteenth Century (British) Political Theory and Cultural Criticism |
Iain Hampsher-Monk and Ed Skidelsky |
Lecturer, University of Hull |
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2012 |
The Divergence of Thought on War and Peace in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
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2012 |
Immanent Creativity and Constitutive Power |
Robin Durie and Andy Schaap |
Lecturer, University of Brighton |
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Marios Filis |
2012 |
Political Ethics: History and Theory |
Dario Castiglione |
Outsourcing Business Manager, LCH |
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2012 |
The Basis of Human Equality |
Keith Hyams |
Research Fellow, University of Warwick |
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2012 |
Nietzche's Monster of Energy: The Self-Creation of the Great Man |
Robin Durie |
Associate Lecturer, Politics, Exeter |
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2011 |
The Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
Reader in Politics, Kings College London |
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Claire Bonham |
2010 |
Rethinking the Divide: Beyond the Politics of Demand vs. The Policy of the Act Debate |
Bice Maiguashca and Andy Schaap |
Strategic Lead, Volunteering, Salvation Army |
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2010 |
Why is Cornwall so Poor?: Narrative, Perception, and Identity |
Robin Durie and Jonathan Githens-Mazer |
Lecturer, University of Exeter |
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Saud Al-Tammami |
2009 |
Enlightenment in Contemporary Arab Thought: Juxtaposing Averroes and Kant |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
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Cassie Hague |
2009 |
Polluted Inheritances?: Children, The Political Imagination, and the Search for a Non-Oppositional Notion of Child Citizenship Rights |
Bice Maiguashca and Robin Durie |
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2009 |
Magistra Vitae: History as Inducement for Action |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
Research Fellow, Australian National University |
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2009 |
Activity, Passivity, and the Politics of Will and Disposition in the Thought of Locke and Rousseau |
Iain Hampsher-Monk and Dario Castiglione |
Associate Professor, Kyungpook National University |