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Dr SJ Beard

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk


16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB
[email protected] +44 (0) 7983 676 970 sjbeard.weebly.com

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY


Senior Research Associate / Academic Centre for the Study of Existential Risk,
Programme Manager University of Cambridge (2019 - )
I work across many CSER programmes, including leading our work on A Science of Global Risk and Injustice and
Global Catastrophic Risk; researching the ethics of human extinction; developing transdisciplinary approaches
for Existential Risk Studies; engaging with media and policy-makers; and helping coordinate our
communications, fundraising, events, education and visitor programmes.
Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellow University of Cambridge (2021-23)
1 of 12 fellows, selected from a university wide competition, for a collaborative interdisciplinary programme of
“career enhancement to support outstanding researchers seeking to shape the future for the betterment of society”.
Affiliated Researcher Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm)
(Climate Ethics and Future Generations) (2018 - )
I am a regular visitor to the centre, presenting work and engaging with their researchers.
Advisor APPG Future Generations (2017 - )
I advised the APPG, on research and politics, since its inception and support its Today for Tomorrow campaign.
New Generation Thinker AHRC / BBC Radio 3 2017 – )
(Academic broadcaster on TV and Radio)
I present and appear on a range of BBC programs as part of a network of emerging academic leaders.
Research Associate Centre for the Study of Existential Risk,
(Evaluating Extreme Technological Risk) University of Cambridge (2016 – 2019)
I was one of the first group of postdoctoral researchers to start working at the centre, pioneering our work on
both the scientific study and ethical evaluation of existential risk, and contributing to the centre’s early growth.
Visiting Researcher Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social
Sciences, London School of Economics (2018)
I spent a term engaging with LSE researchers in the philosophy of science and the ethics of risk and uncertainty.
Research Fellow in Philosophy Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
(Population Ethics: Theory and Practice) (2015 – 2016)
I worked with Hilary Greaves on foundational research in population ethics and global priorities.

EDUCATION
PhD in Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method London School of Economics (2011 – 2016)
PGCert in Higher Education (Full award) London School of Economics (2012 – 2014)
MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy London School of Economics (2009 – 2011)
Distinction (Part-time)
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics University of Oxford (2003 – 2007)
1st Class honours

PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
Contracted “Hope Against Existential Risk”. (Polity Books)
In Press An Anthology of Global Risk. Ed with Hobson, T. (Open Book Publishing)
2023 The Era of Global Risk. Ed with Rees, M., Richards, R., and Rios Rojas, C. (Open Book
Publishing)
2021 Double Debt Disaster: Law, Policy, and Social Justice in the wake of Japan’s 2011 Tsunami.
With Weitzdörfer, J. (Iudicium / DIJ Tokyo)
2021 Population and Ethics: Difficult Issues, Global Challenges. Ed, with Dasgupta, P. & Jones, N.
(Journal of Development Studies)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS IN EXISTENTIAL RISK STUDIES
In press From Evaluation to Action: ethics, epistemology, and extreme technological risk. With
Sundaram, L. and Maas, M. (Managing Extreme Technological Risk. Ed Catherine Rhodes -
World Scientific Publishing)
In press Ripples on the Great Sea of Life: a brief history of existential risk studies. With Torres, E. (An
Anthology of Global Risk. Ed SJ Beard and Tom Hobson – Open Book Publishing)
In Press Existential Change: lessons from climate change for existential risk. With Kemp, L. (An
Anthology of Global Risk. Ed SJ Beard and Tom Hobson – Open Book Publishing)
In Press Financing our Final Hour. With Kemp, L., Bellfield, H., et al. (An Anthology of Global Risk. Ed
SJ Beard and Tom Hobson – Open Book Publishing)
2023 We Have to Include Everyone: enabling humanity to reduce existential risk. With Wells-Jensen,
S. (The Era of Global Risk. Ed SJ Beard, M Rees, C Richards, and C Rios Rojas – Open Book
Publishing)
2023 A Brief History of Existential Risk and the People Who Worked to Mitigate It. With Bronson, R.
(The Era of Global Risk. Ed SJ Beard, M Rees, C Richards, and C Rios Rojas – Open Book
Publishing)
2023 ParEvo: A methodology for the exploration and evaluation of alternative futures. With Davis,
R. Hobson, T. and Mani, L. (Evaluation)
2021 Assessing Climate Change’s Contribution to Global Catastrophic Risk. With Holt, L., Avin, S., et
al. (Futures)
2020 Existential Risk Assessment: a reply to Baum. with Rowe, T. & Fox, J. (Futures)
2020 An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify Existential Hazards. With
Rowe, T. & Fox, J. (Futures)
2019 Law and Policy Response to Disaster Induced Financial Distress. With Weitzdörfer, J.
(Governance, Risk and Financial Impact of Mega Disasters: lessons from Japan. Ed Akiko
Kamesaka & Franz Waldenberger – Springer)
2017 Climate Change and the Worst-Case Scenario (IPPR Progressive Review)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY
In press Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for
Wellbeing. With Kaczmarek, P. (The Monist)
In press Evaluating Extreme Technological Risk: a social contract based approach. With Kaczmarek, P.
(Managing Extreme Technological Risk. Ed Catherine Rhodes – World Scientific Publishing)
2022 Do We Owe the Past a Future: a reply to Finnerin-Burns. With Kaczmarerk, P. (Studies in
Climate Ethics and Future Generations 5. Ed Tim Campbell and Olle Torpman – IFFS)
2022 On Theory X and What Matters Most. With Kaczmarek, P. (Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of
Derek Parfit. Ed: Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, & Ketan Ramakrishnan – OUP)
2021 Optimum Population and Environmental Constraints: a utilitarian perspective. With Dasgupta,
P. (Studies in Climate Ethics and Future Generations 4. Ed Joe Roussos and Paul Bowman –
IFFS)
2020 Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past. With Kaczmarek, P. (Utilitas)
2020 Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion. (Journal of Value Inquiry)
2020 Book Review – Climate Justice: integrating economics and philosophy. Ed Ravi Kanbur and
Henry Shue. (Economics and Philosophy)
2019 On the Wrongness of Human Extinction. With Kaczmarek, P. (Argumenta)
2019 What’s unfair about unequal brute luck? an intergenerational puzzle. (Philosophia)
2011 The Dilemma of Discounting: the impossibility of setting a context independent Ramsey
discount rate for human wellbeing. (Rerum Causae)
Expert Elicitations
In press Scoping Potential Routes to UK Civil Unrest via the Food System: results of a structured expert
elicitation. With Jones, A. Bridle, S. et al. (Sustainability)
2021 Climate Change Risk Assessment 2021. Quiggin, D. De Meye, K., Hubble-Rose, L., & Froggatt,
A. (Chatham House)
2021 What Near-Term Climate Impacts Should Worry Us Most? Quggin, D. Townend, R. and Benton,
T. (Chatham House)
2021 A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses:
SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. With Sutherland, W., Taylor, N., et al. (Journal of Biosafety and
Biosecurity)
2019 Accumulating Evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: a living bibliography about
existential risk and global catastrophic risk. With Shackelford, G., Kemp, L., et al. (Futures)
2018 The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation. With
Brundage, M., Avin, S., et al. (FHI, CSER, Centre for a New American Security, Electronic
Frontier Foundation, OpenAI)
REPORTS AND EVIDENCE SUBMISSIONS
2023 Report of a Workshop on Managing the Contribution of Solar Radiation Modification and Climate
Change to Global Catastrophic Risk. With Futerman, G. (CSER)
2022 Submission of Evidence to the White House Office of Science and Technology’s Request for
Input to a Five-Year Plan for Research on Climate Intervention. With Futerman, G. & Gibbons,
G.
2021 Foresight for unknown, long-term and emerging risks, Approaches and Recommendations:
evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning. With
Rios Rojas, C., Rhodes, C., Avin, S., & Kemp, L.
2020 Intrinsic Values of Ecosystems: essay contributed to the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of
Biodiversity.
2020 Public Mental Health and COVID-19: a compassion based approach to recovery and resilience.
With Brietron, K., Gilbert, P., and Huppert, F. (ALDES)
2020 Identifying and Assessing Drivers of Global Catastrophic Risk. With Torres, E. (Global
Challenges Foundation)
2017 Climate Ethics and Climate Economics: Risk, Uncertainty and Catastrophe Scenarios. With
Spiekerman, K. (CSER)
2017 Written Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. With Avin
S., O hÉigeartaigh, S., Kunz, M., & Ware, A.
2016 Personal Identity and Public Policy. With Campbell, T. (CSER/IFFS)

TEACHING
I have an extensive and interdisciplinary teaching record, working with both graduate and undergraduate students
in multiple disciplines with consistently high student satisfaction scores. Students I have mentored and supervised
have gone on to high impact careers at the Future of Life Institute, Effective Giving, and Longview Media and research
positions at Kings College London, the University of Oxford, and The Institute for Defence Analyses among others.
2023 - MSt Dissertation supervisor and marker, Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
2023 - Mentor, CHRI Summer Fellowship
2022 - Mentor, Magnify Mentoring
2022 - Mentor, CERI/ERA Summer Fellowship
2021 - MPhil Dissertation supervisor, Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge
2021 - Guest Lecturer on “Risk”, UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial
Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks, University of Cambridge
2019 - BA Dissertation supervision, Philosophy, University of Cambridge
2019 Guest Lecturer “bioethics and biotechnology”, MPhill Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
2018 - Coach, Effective Thesis Project
2018 - 19 MA Dissertation supervisor, Philosophy, University of Groningen
2017 - 18 BA Dissertation supervisor, Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
2017 Guest Lecturer “An Introduction to Existential Risk”, BA Philosophy, Politics, and Economics,
VU Amsterdam - Student Satisfaction 1.53/5
2017 Associate Lecturer, “Political Obligation”, BA Philosophy, University of Cambridge – student
satisfaction 1.3/5
2012 - 15 Teaching Assistant, BA Philosophy, London School of Economics – “Global Justice” student
satisfaction 1.0/5; “Reason Knowledge and Values” student satisfaction 1.6/5; and “Philosophy
and Public Policy” – student satisfaction 1.9/5
OUTREACH AND IMPACT
MEDIA
I am a versatile media creator who can work to short deadlines and provide thoughtful commentary on topical issues
as well as in-depth and long-form perspectives and explainers. I have also advised producers and journalists
interested in working on existential risk and have used this to create media opportunities for other CSER researchers.
TV and Radio Appearances:
2023 “Dystopias” Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3 (June 30th)
2022 “Existential Risk Roundtable” Doomer Optimism Podcast (August 15th)
2022 “Exiting the Bunker” Sideways, BBC Radio 4 (August 18th)
2022 “Existential Risk” Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3 (February 10th)
2022 “The Heart of Effective Altruism” 21st Talks Podcast (February 6th)
2020 “Simon Beard on Parfit, Climate Change and Existential Risk” Hear This Idea Podcast (October
1st)
2020 “The Post Covid World” The Seventh Generation Podcast (May 17th)
2020 “The Cathedral Thinkers” BBC Radio 4 (March 24 – my contribution was featured on BBC Radio’s
Pick of the Week)
2019 “Climate Change is an Existential Threat” Future of Life Institute Podcast (August 2nd)
2019 “Will Humans Survive the Next Century” Analysis, BBC Radio 4 (March 11th)
2019 “Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds” Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3
(February 7th)
2019 “P3 Dystopia: unknown unknowns” Sverieges Radio
2019 “Becoming Human” Channel News Asia
2018 “Was I wrong to have kids?” BBC Radio 3 (November 4th)
2018 “Why we’re heading for a climate catastrophe” Newsnight, BBC Two (October 8th)
2018 “What do you do if you are a Manically Depressed Robot?” The Essay, BBC Radio 3 (March 23rd
– featured in The Times’ Pick of the Day)
2017 “The Countdown to Artificial Intelligence” The Naked Scientists, BBC 5 Live (October 17th)
2017 “Postcard of Mortality and Existential Risk” Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3 (June 22nd)
Articles published:
2022 “How to Read the Doomsday Clock” BBC Future (January 20th)
2020 “(When) are you going to have kids?” Cambridge University Horizons Magazine (December 2nd)
2019 “The Problem with the Trolley Problem” Quartz (September 27th)
2019 “Deep Ethics: the long-term quest to decide right from wrong” BBC Future (June 18th)
2019 “Catastrophic failure of Earth’s global systems led to the extinction of the dinosaurs – we may
yet go the same way” The Conversation (March 29th)
2019 “What are the Biggest Threats to Humanity?” BBC News On-line (February 15th)
2018 “Should We Stop Having Children?” BBC On-line (March 9th)
2018 “Geoengineering is a very, very bad idea: but here’s why we may have to do it anyway”
Huffington Post (January 25th)
2017 “Should We be Worried about GMOs?” Quillette (November 27th)
2017 “Will AI Help Build a Fairer World? the answer is in our hands” Huffington Post (November 21st)
2017 “Should We Care About the Worst-Case Scenario When it Comes to Climate Change?”
Huffington Post (September 28th)
2017 “When the World Didn’t End” BBC History Magazine (September 15th)
2017 “Why Philosophers Fail to Influence Public Debate – and How They Can Do Better” Quillette
(August 2nd)
2016 “Using birth control to combat Zika virus could affect future generations” The Conversation
(February 19th)
2015 “If abolishing China’s one child policy leads to more children, would it be so bad?” The
Conversation (December 7th)
Articles featuring me and my work:
2020 “Climate Change is a Catastrophe. But is it an Existential Threat?” grist.com (March 4)
2020 “Why Air Travel Makes a Global Pandemic the Biggest Threat to Humankind” Daily Telegraph
(January 24)
2019 “This Guy Studies the ‘Global System Death Spiral’ That Might End Humanity” vice.com
(November 14)
2019 “Mass Extinction: can we stop it?” BBC Science Focus (October 2nd)
2017 “Is it Dangerous to Recreate Flawed Human Morality in AI?” WIRED (July 13th)
POLICY ENGAGEMENTS
I have a broad range of policy experience, having worked in policy organizations and stood for political office. I am
able to leverage this to create opportunities for impact from my research and others, by informing and persuading
policy-makers, including via evidence submissions (listed above) and direct engagement.
2022 Co-lead a training session for the UK Civil Service Reform Champions on Exploring Long Term
Resilience, in partnership with the Centre for Long Term Resilience (March 7th)
2021 Participated in a series of workshops to re-draft the Welfare of Future Generations Bill (March)
2021 Presented at a workshop for senior civil servants on “extreme risks”, organized by the Centre
for Long Term Resilience (February 1st)
2021 Provided oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk
Planning. My testimony on futures and foresight tools and the importance of diversity was cited
by the committee in their final report and the relevant recommendations resulting from it were
accepted by the government. (January 13th)
2020 Spoke on a COVID-19 panel for the Association of Liberal Democrat Engineers and Scientists
and the Young Liberals (May 26th)
2020 Met with civil servants at the UK Treasury working on the Dasgupta Review of the Economics
of Biodiversity (February 12th)
2019 Attended a workshop organized by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London that
brought together climate researchers and activists (November 21st)
2019 Co-organized a policy workshop on “Responding to Catastrophic Climate Change and
Environmental Collapse” with leading UK think tanks IPPR and Demos (May 30th)
2019 Co-organized a policy seminar on “Local Government Climate Futures” with Carbon Neutral
Cambridge, Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire district councils, and the Greater Cambridge
Planning Service (May 21st)
2019 Co-wrote a response to the IPBES 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services (May 7th)
2018 Spoke at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations on “Black Sky
Events and Infrastructure Resilience” (July 6th)
2017 Co-organized the inaugural meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
(November 2nd)
2017 Met with a range of civil servants at the Department for Business, Enterprise, and Industrial
Strategy to discuss the regulation of emerging technologies (October 16th)
2017 Met with a civil servants at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport to discuss
technology policy (October 12th)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


FUNDING AND AWARDS
2023 Applied – Protest in the Climate Emergency, AHRC (I was a contributing author and Co-PI for
this £300k funding application)
2019 Awarded – A Science of Global Risk, Templeton World Charity Foundation (I was co-lead author
on this successful £1.2m funding application and was in charge of managing the project and
our relationship with the funder)
2018 Awarded – Population, Health, and the Global Environment, Grantham Foundation (I was a
contributing author for this successful £500k funding application, am a chief point of contact
with the funder, and lead at the review meeting where they agreed renewed funding in 2023)
2018 Awarded – Strategic Grant, Isaac Newton Trust (I was a contributing author for this successful
£910k grant application)
2016 Awarded - Cumberland Colloquium, Cumberland Lodge (I was selected to run a high-profile
public workshop on Population Ethics).
I also raised over £10k in additional support from external organisations including the Royal
Economic Society, British Society for Population Studies, and Society for Applied Philosophy
2015 Awarded - Class Teacher Award, Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics
2011 Awarded – Research Studentship, AHRC (full funding for PhD research)
2009 Awarded – Research Development Studentship, AHRC (full funding for MSc study)
2008 Awarded – Small Grant, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (£5k to research concepts of
sustainability in UK politics)
2006 Awarded –Exhibitionership, Merton College, University of Oxford (college scholarship)
EVENTS
2023 Co-organizer (with Gideon Futerman and Anders Sandberg): Wytham Abbey workshop on
Pluralisms in Existential Risk Studies
2023 Co-organizer (with Gideon Futerman): CSER workshop on Managing the Contribution of Solar
Radiation Modification and Climate Change to Global Catastrophic Risk
2022 Lead organizer: Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk
2020 Co-organizer (with Lara Mani): Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk
2019 Organizer: CSER workshop on Evaluating Extreme Technological Risk
2018 Co-organizer (with Catherine Rhodes): Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk
2017 Co-organizer (with Kai Spiekerman): ESRC workshop on Climate Ethics and Climate Economics:
Risk, Uncertainty and Catastrophe Scenarios
2017 Organizer: CSER workshop on Solar Geoengineering
2016 Co-organizer (with Tim Campbell): CSER / University of Oxford workshop on Personal Identity
and Public Policy
2016 Organizer: Cumberland Lodge Colloquium on Population and Ethics
2015 Organizer: MANCEPT workshop on New Work in Population Ethics
2014 - 15 Paper selector and panel chair: LSE Graduate Political Theory Conference
JOURNAL ADMINISTRATION AND REVIEW
Editorial Board Member Futures
Referee in Existential Risk Studies Governance
AI and Society
Futures
Foresight
Journal of Risk Research
Global Policy
Conservation Biology
Referee in Philosophy Journal of Moral Philosophy
Utilitas
Theoria
Economics and Philosophy
Inquiry
Science and Engineering Ethics
Philosophers Imprint
Philosophical Quarterly
Bioethics
Ergo
PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
2023 “Equality and Diversity in Existential Risk.” Wytham Abbey workshop on Pluralisms in
Existential Risk Studies (May 14th)
2023 Panel “The Era of Global Risk: Bool Launch.” Cambridge Festival (March 21st)
2023 “The World You Can Save: a brief introduction to Existential Risk Studies.” Oxford University
Effective Altruism Society (January 20th)
2023 “8 years and counting: lessons from the recent history of the Centre for the Study of Existential
Risk.” Future of Humanity Institute (January 20th)
2022 Panel “Do look up: What can circus artists teach us about risk?” Understanding Risk Forum
2022 (November 29th)
2022 “Fireside Chat on Existential Risk.” Cambridge University Effective Altruism Society (16th
November)
2022 Panel “Calamitous Futures.” Futures in Question Research Network (October 25th)
2022 “Disability and Existential Risk.” Transgender Philosophy Summer School (July 11th)
2022 “How to Think About the End of the World.” Open University Philosophy seminar (7th June)
2022 “Opening address.” Brunel University conference Extinction: the social, ecological, political, and
cultural implications of extinction from the microbial to the planetary (21st March)
2022 “Real Catastrophes.” Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk (April 20th)
2022 “On Climate Change: rights for future generations.” Cambridge Union (24th January)
2021 Panel “Doom and Doubt: uncertain futures and open questions about existential risk.” (1st July)
2021 Panel “Our Duty to the Past and Our Past Selves.” Marc Sanders Foundation (10th June)
2020 “The Moral Standing of Ecosystems.” Institute for Futures Studies workshop on animals and
climate change (December 4th)
2018 “AI and the Future of Communities.” Ditchley Park Festival of Ideas (July 14th)
2018 “Fairness Based Arguments for the Pure Time Preference for Wellbeing.” Climate Ethics and
Climate Economics: Discounting, what have we learned? University of Nottingham (June 12th)
2018 “Optimum Population and Global Inequality.” Institute for Futures Studies (May 23rd)
2018 “Quality of Life and the Repugnant Conclusion.” Conference in Memory of Derek Parfit (May
20th)
2018 “Risk, Relevance, and the Aggregation of Competing Claims.” LSE Choice Group (May 2nd)
2018 “Probability, Evidence, and Existential Risk Claims.” Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic
Risk (April 16th)
2017 “How Do Effective Altruism Organizations Account for Uncertainty?” CRUISSE workshop on
decision making under extreme uncertainty, University of London (September 17th)
2017 “Fairness, Equity, Precaution and Disaster law: the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake.”
Fairness in Law Making conference, University of Belfast (May 18th)
2016 “Personal Identity and the Quality of Life.” Workshop on Personal Identity and Public Policy,
University of Oxford (November 2nd)
2016 “Fat tails and Fairness.” Climate Ethics and Economics conference, LSE (September 15th)
2015 “Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion.” and “What is bad about bad brute luck? An
Intergenerational Puzzle.” OZSW Conference, VU Amsterdam (December 11th and 12th)
2015 “Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion.” Theoretical Population Ethics Conference,
University of Oxford (November 21st)
2015 “The Reductionist Criteria of Personal Identity and the Repugnant Conclusion.” Workshop on
personal identity and ethics, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford (November 20th)
2015 “Is the lifetime well-being of persons all that matters in population axiology?” Workshop on
well-being and population ethics, Institute for Future Studies (October 20th)
2015 “What is bad about brute bad luck? An Intergenerational Puzzle.” Pavia Graduate Political
Philosophy Conference, University of Pavia (September 9th)
2015 “So, just how complex is Equality Anyway?” MANCEPT Workshops: New Work in Population
Ethics, University of Manchester (September 3rd)
2015 “Personal Identity and Population Ethics: Beyond the Non-Identity Problem.” Institute for
Future Studies (May 18th)
2015 “Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion.” Intercollegiate Graduate Philosophy
Conference, Institute of Philosophy (February 27th)
2014 “What is the source of intransitivity in the mere addition paradox?” The London Moral and
Political Philosophy Workshop, University College London (November 7th)
2012 “Why is the Repugnant Conclusion repugnant?” Brave New World, University of Manchester
(June 29th)
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2023 Grant Writing Intensive (School of Arts and Humanities)
2023 Managing Change (PPD)
2022 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA England)
2022 How to be an Active Bystander at Work (PPD)
2021 Inclusive Leadership Programme (PPD)
2020 Demonstrating Mutual Respect (PPD)
2016 – 17 Becoming a Research Leader (CRASSH)

OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2014 - 15 Educational Development Advisor, Insight Education
2009 – 12 Private Tutor in Economics and Philosophy, Holland Park Tuition
2010 – 11 Research Associate, ResPublica (Think Tank)
2008 – 11 Freelance Researcher and Political Consultant, UK House of Lords
2009 – 10 Parliament and Policy Officer, Dignity in Dying (Campaigning Organization)
2009 – 10 Researcher, Ekklesia (Think Tank)
2008 Research Assistant, SCOPE (Charity)
2007 - 08 Intern, CentreForum (Think Tank) and Social Market Foundation (Think Tank)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2023 The Hope of Knowing Love: research poems. Contributor (University of Cambridge)
2012 It's not what you see it’s how you see it. (Journal of Inclusive Practice in Higher Education)
2010 End of life care and decision making – a review of party policies. (Dignity in Dying)
2009 Examining, Evaluating, and Exploring Spiritual Capital. (Ekklesia)
2009 A law out of step. (Dignity in Dying)
2008 Dods New Constituency Guide. Contributor (Dods parliamentary communications)
2005 Guide to an Unknown University. Contributor (Oxford Muse Foundation)

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY


2015, 2017 Parliamentary Candidate for Dartford (Liberal Democrat)
2011 - 14 School Governor, Dunton Green Primary School
2010 - Mentor for Insight Education (Oxbridge applicants from minority backgrounds)
2009 - 11 Member of Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Working Group on Quality of Life
2005 – 06 Community researcher, Oxford Muse Foundation

Academic References
Professor Partha Dasgupta – Department of Economics, University of Cambridge [email protected]
Professor Gustaf Arrhenius – Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm [email protected]
Professor Michael Otsuka – Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University [email protected]

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