Consultants

Melanie Altanian is an Assistant Professor at University College Freiburg. She is an expert in social and political epistemology, moral philosophy and social philosophy, and is the author of a profoundly original examination of genocide denialism – focusing in particular on the Armenian genocide – from these combined perspectives.

Megan Blomfield is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert in global justice and the environment, with a particular focus on the political philosophy of climate change. Her current research focuses on land rights in a changing climate.

Havi Carel is a Professor at the University of Bristol. She is an expert in phenomenology and in ethically-driven epistemology. She has authored seminal work examining unjust conceptions of illness, treatment of ill persons and allocations of healthcare from both these perspectives. She is currently PI of a Wellcome Discovery Award project on epistemic injustice in healthcare (EPIC).

Richard Pettigrew is a Professor at the University of Bristol. He is an expert in individual and collective epistemology, with additional interests in the philosophy of mathematics and in building fair and inclusive systems of higher education. He is currently PI of a Leverhulme Trust project on The Foundations of Longtermism.

Leo Townsend is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton. He is an expert in political epistemology and applied and social philosophy of language, with a particular focus on the pragmatics and politics of group speech and the dynamics through which groups’ speech agency can be unjustly impaired.