Intro


​​I am an Associate Professor of Global Ethics 
​in the Department of Philosophy at the
​University of Birmingham (UK).
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I currently hold a Leverhulme Fellowship
on the moral value of Diversity and Inclusion. 

In addition, I am also interested in climate ethics,
environmental sustainability, morality, and global justice.
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I recently did an exciting podcast episode about my project on
​Diversity and Inclusion:
The RE Podcast
S14E8: The One About EDI
​For policymakers, non-academic organisations and practitioners:
I am very interested in contributing and collaborating on the following topics.

Please see the dedicated pages "For policymakers and others" on my main areas of expertise:
  • Topics related to Diversity and Inclusion (including gender, sexual orientation, migration, and D&I in general)
  • ​Climate Ethics (including environmental ethics, climate policy, and sustainable development)

In addition, I am happy to contribute on:
  • Social and global justice (including welfare policies, sustainable development and poverty alleviation)
  • Bioethics (including public health, medical tourism, infectious diseases, pandemics)​

By the way: I can deliver these contributions in both English and Dutch!

More about me
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Research
I obtained my PhD in Philosophy and Moral Sciences in 2014 from Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). My dissertation examined the challenges climate change and other problems of environmental sustainability pose to our conceptions of individual freedom (the capabilities approach in particular) and responsibility (more specifically, common-sense morality).

My research has two main strands: 
  1. Climate ethics, climate policy, sustainable development and environmental ethics
  2. Diversity and Inclusion (with the generous support of the Leverhulme Foundation)
More information on my research can be found on the Research Topics and Publications (under "For Academics").
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Online stuff

​I can be found here (in no particular order) as well: 
Teaching and Managerial Responsibilities
​I teach on modules in global ethics, environmental ethics and bioethics. I am happy to supervise students working on political philosophy, global (bio)ethics, climate change, environmental sustainability and intersubjective ethics. Currently, I am supervising PhD students working on the analogy between climate change and the abolition of slavery, environmental ethics, abortion, and intergenerational justice from the perspective of indigenous people.

My recent managerial responsibilities at the UoB have included Head of Education and Assessment and Progress Lead for the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion.