I’m interested in supervising PhD students working on topics of resistance, emotions/affect, memory politics, transitional justice, social movements, the Arab Spring, and existential, feminist and decolonial theory. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss your proposed topic, I’d be happy to support you in developing your proposal.

Also, have a look at the Pre-Doctoral Mentoring Programme that we have developed at the Centre for Contemporary Political Theory at the University of Leeds.

Current PhD students

Hannah Shaw (2024-), thesis topic: Populism, gender, and opposition politics in South Africa

Yanyu Lu, (2024-), thesis topic: A critical discourse analysis of All China Women's Federation's policies

Completed PhD students

Paul Geyer (2021-2025), thesis title: Theorising The Social Media Subscription Model. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, Ireland

Anton Elloway (2018-2021), thesis title: Polis-ing English for academic purposes: thinking with Hannah Arendt about education and politics. Currently a Teaching Fellow in English for Academic Purposes at English Language Education, University of Edinburgh