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Citizenship, state and governance
Parent category: Geography
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Dr Kathrin Hörschelmann
Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Lecturer, Culture-Economy-Life
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Lecturer, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Lecturer, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Senior Lecturer, Geographies of Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Lecturer, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41960
Specialist expertise:
- Energy vulnerability, social inequality and youth
- Post-Socialist Transformation and Cultural Identities
- Youth Culture and Globalisation
- Youth Politics
Dr Colin McFarlane
Reader, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41959
Lecturer, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41959
Lecturer / Cluster Convenor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41959
Mobile telephone: 07503328560
Home telephone: +44 (0)191 421 0857
Specialist expertise:
- Cities; urban development; urban politics; urban India.
Dr Jonathan Miles-watson
Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Department of Theology and Religion
Specialist expertise:
- Mythology
- North India
- Religious Capital
- Sacred Space
Professor Joe Painter
Head of Department, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Professor, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Professor, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Professor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41906
Specialist expertise:
- Cities and urban development
- European citizenship and identity
- Regional Politics and Government
Professor Marcus Power
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Professor, Culture-Economy-Life
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Reader, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Reader, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Reader, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828