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Postgraduate community
The PhD in Political Theory at Exeter
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.
Our Current Students
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Name |
Year |
Title |
Supervisors |
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Luke Bennison |
Current |
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Lena Isayev and Andrew Schaap |
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Thomas Gilloch Boyle |
Current |
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Andrew Schaap and Alex McLaughlin |
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Colin Cremona |
Current |
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Lise Herman and Andrew Schaap |
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Yufeng Zhang |
Current |
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Dario Castiglione |
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Mike Williams |
Current |
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Catriona McKinnon and Robert Lamb |
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Lewis Cooper |
Current |
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Andrew Schaap, Bice Maiguashca and Lise Herman |
Our Past Students
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Name |
Year |
Title |
Supervisors |
Placement |
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Bingshu Zhao |
2025 |
Bringing the Family Back into |
Dario Castiglione and Ross Carroll |
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Roberto Baccarini |
2025 |
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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Jessica Stanier |
2024 |
Phenomenology and Aging |
Robin Durie |
in the Philosophy Department, UWE Bristol |
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Dougie Booth |
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Marxism and Socialist Republicanism |
James Muldoon and Andy Schaap |
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Vivian Hall |
2023 |
The Whig Coryphaeus: Walter Moyle and the Civic Humanist Tradition |
Ross Carroll |
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Riina Ylinen |
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Hannah Arendt’s capitalism’ and the ‘value of value’ in contemporary India |
Andy Schaap |
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Oliver Roberts-Garratt |
2022 |
Foucault, Hyppolite, and the Ineffable |
James Muldoon |
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2022 |
Overturning the Majority |
Andrew Schaap and Alex Prichard |
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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 Capacity to World: The Transcendental Ground of Hannah Arendt’s Conception of the Human |
Andrew Schaap and Robin Durie |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sichuan University, Chengdu (China) |
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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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Martin Moorby |
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 |
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 |
Associate Professor, 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 |
Senior Lecturer, 樱花动漫 |
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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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Robin Douglass |
2011 |
The Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Iain Hampsher-Monk |
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, 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 |
Senior Lecturer, 樱花动漫 |
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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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Nikola Regent |
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 |