Welcome, and thanks for visiting! I am a moral and political philosopher with research interests in animal ethics, the philosophy of food, liberal and libertarian political theory, and applied ethics. I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, where I have been based since 2022. I’ve previously worked at the University of Sheffield, the University of York, and Queen’s University in Canada. I was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast in 2016.
I have published two books. The most recent was 2023’s Food, Justice, and Animals from Oxford University Press, which was shortlisted for the Siobhan O’Sullivan Book Prize. I was the winner of the 2016 Res Publica postgraduate prize and the 2024 Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Early Career Prize. Grants I’ve won include a 2019 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and a 2026 CARMA Pump Priming grant.
I’m an associate editor at the open access Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the British Academy and Res Publica. I regularly interview academics writing about relationships between humans and animals for the podcast Knowing Animals.
You can follow me on Twitter @JoshLMilburn, on Instagram @aveganphilosopher, or on Bluesky @joshmilburn.bsky.social. I’m also on LinkedIn. If you want to know more about me or my work, feel free to have a look around this website or get in touch.
Josh Milburn 