RESEARCH PROJECTS
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS
I am a co-PI in the project using peer-research and deliberative approaches to develop a costs of living crisis response and recovery plan led by Suzanne Hall from King's Policy Institute. We have presented the results of the project at the Greater London Assembly conference on 19/10/2023. Project has been funded by King's Together Fund.
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The outputs include:
Breaking Point. The cost-of-living crisis in London, and what can be done about it (policy report)
Experiencing the cost-of-living crisis:​ the impact on mental health​ (policy report)
A series of blog posts
COPING WITH COMPLEXITY AND URBAN INEQUALITY
During my post-doctoral project, titled ‘Coping with Complexity and Urban Inequality: Dilemmas of Democratic Governance’ (fully funded by ESRC), I have analysed the challenges to local democracy and socio-economic equality as perceived by London policy stakeholders.
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The project combined normative and empirical methods (semi-structured interviews and co-production with stakeholders).
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The outputs of the project include:
London During the Pandemic. Local Democracy and Inequality (policy report)
London Stakeholders on London Governance, 2020-2021 (dataset)
Public event 'London Democracy During the Pandemic' with Professor Tony Travers (LSE), Cllc Tim Roca (Westminster Council), Dr Sonia Bussu (Manchester Metropolitan).
Book manuscript on Democracy and Complexity
DEMOCRACY AS POLITICAL AGENCY
My PhD thesis, titled 'Democracy as Political Agency. Governance and Emancipation of Megacities' developed an alternative conception of democracy that would be applicable to unusual, amorphous political settings. According to this conception, a democratic polity should promote political agency of its members, in conditions of complex equality. As an example of an unusual, amorphous setting, my thesis looked at megacities. These large cities are often argued to be an unlikely place for realisation of democratic ideals, due to their rapid growth, inequality, political dependence and high complexity. Yet, from the perspective of the conception developed in this thesis, megacities can become democratic polities if they implement a mixture of political and structural reforms. The thesis combined analytic philosophy, critical political theory and urban studies.
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My PhD was examined by Anne Phillips (LSE) and Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion) and awarded in February 2020. It is available to read here.
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