GUY AITCHISON

ABOUT ME

I'm Guy Aitchison, a political theorist working within the normative tradition with interests in political resistance, human rights, democratic theory and migration. Outside academia I enjoy running, music festivals and entertaining my very excitable one-year-old son.

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I am currently Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University in the UK. I previously taught in the Philosophy department at King’s College London and before that I held an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin. I also spent a wonderful year as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

I initially started my academic journey studying History at Cambridge University where I became interested in the history of political thought, leading to an MA in political theory at UCL where I also completed my PhD in Political Philosophy in 2015. In another lifetime I spent several thrilling (though politically frustrating!) years helping to run various campaigns in the UK seeking to protect civil liberties and reform the electoral system in Westminster.

You can read a full version of my CV here. As a researcher and educator, I am keen to develop research proposals, co-organised conferences, discussions and other collaborative work - do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss how we could work together.