The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University of London

Research Centre run jointly between the Departments of Sociology and English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths University, London

Graduate Affiliates

Karl Baldacchino (Sociology)
Thesis title: Cartographies of Indifference: Resistance in Western Contemporary Critical Thought (Funded by Tertiary Education Scholarship Scheme, Malta)

Andrés Cabrera Sanhueza (Sociology)
Thesis title: Crisis of Hegemony in the Chilean Neoliberal ‘Laboratory’ (2019–2023). An Exercise in Historical Interpretation (Funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) scholarship programme)

Rachel Cummings (Sociology, Goldsmiths / University of Bath)
Thesis title: Health professionals’ Responses to Deathbed Phenomena: Implications for Medical Knowledge and Care (Funded by Wellcome)

Alistair Bernal Holmes (Sociology)
Thesis title: Out of time: Exploring the Temporality of the Climate Crisis

Jack Morson (English and Creative Writing / Critical Theory)
Thesis title: Against Monolingualism, 1975-1996: Jacques Derrida’s Poetic Thinking (Funded by CHASE AHRC studentship)

Florence Platford (English and Comparative Literature)
Thesis title: Political Occultology: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Surrealism’ and the Figure of the Secret Society (Funded by departmental bursary)

Vajid Punakkath (English and Creative Writing / Critical Theory)
Thesis title: Rebel-Subject at the Dawn of the Biopolitical: A Critical-Theoretical Study of the Mappila Rebellion, 1836-1921 (Funded by Generation Delta studentship)

Mais Robinson (Theatre and Performance)
Thesis title: Playing the Picket: Using Theatre Techniques to Support Worker Organising in the UK Hospitality Sector