In the academic year 2026-7, I convene the undergraduate modules Environmental Thought and Philosophy and Public Policy, and I co-convene the undergraduate module Contemporary Debates in Philosophy.
Most of my teaching at Loughborough feeds into the BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, for which I was the programme leader from 2023 until 2026. In 2024, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough awarded me two staff prizes for this work; one individually and one as part of the School programme lead team.
My teaching generally covers moral and political philosophy, including their histories. During my career, I have convened or co-convened the following modules:
- Animals and Society (Queen’s University, undergraduate)
- Theories of Justice (York, postgraduate)
- Analytic Political Philosophy (York, postgraduate)
- Ethics and Public Policy (York, undergraduate)
- Introduction to Political Theory (York, undergraduate)
- Animals, Ethics, and Politics (Sheffield, undergraduate)
- Contemporary Debates in Philosophy (Loughborough, undergraduate)
- Philosophy and Public Policy (Loughborough, undergraduate)
- Introduction to Philosophy (Loughborough, undergraduate)
I have also had regular teaching commitments on the following modules:
- Philosophy and the Good Life (Queen’s Belfast, undergraduate)
- Philosophy and Human Nature (Queen’s Belfast, undergraduate)
- The PPE of Social Choice (York, postgraduate)
- Contemporary Political Philosophy (York, undergraduate)
- Topics in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (York, undergraduate)
- Political Theory in Practice (Sheffield, undergraduate)
- Research Design (Loughborough, undergraduate)
- Dissertation (Loughborough, undergraduate)
And I have guest-lectured on modules across many disciplines (including philosophy, politics, English, law, animal studies, and animal welfare) at many universities.
I have supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations (and other research projects) in philosophy, political science, international relations, history, literature, animal studies, and other fields at Queen’s, York, Sheffield, and Loughborough.
I have supervised several PhD students at Loughborough, as well as co-supervising visiting PhD students at Sheffield and acting as an external supervisor at the Open University. PhD students I have supervised include:
- Katharina Braun (2021-2, as a visiting researcher), Animals, Free Speech and Democracy: Legal Responses to Undercover Footage
- Rocio Thovar Chacón (2021, as a visiting researcher), The Political Dimensions of Animal Ethics and Animal Ethics in Public Policy
- Dan Breeze (2022-26), Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt.
- Daniel Santos (2025-present), Identity (Trans)Formation and Disruptive Resistance: Young Climate Justice Advocates in Portugal and Their Journey of Disruptive (Non)Violent Resistance
- James Dranfield (2026-present), The Shooting Weekend: The Social Role of Game Shooting in British Society between 1868 and 1914
- Jacqui Wilmshurst (2026-present), Caring Wildly: Healing at the Boundary in Relationship with Wild Animals
I have also acted as an external examiner (or similar) for postgraduate research projects at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the University of Sassari (Italy), and the University of Winchester (UK).
I am always happy to talk to prospective PhD students or postdoctoral researchers, or explore the option of acting as an external examiner.
Josh Milburn 