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Welcome to CONCEPT: The Nottingham Centre for Normative Political Theory.

CONCEPT was launched in 2010 to encourage and promote the School’s research in normative political theory, which explores questions about how political arrangements ought to be. So for example how a society’s main institutions ought to be organised, what kinds of values and principles should be adopted, or how political choices should be made.

Nottingham has a large and active community of scholars working in this area, incorporating both staff and research students. Work ranges across areas such as property, justice in education, environmental ethics, the politics of recognition, utopian politics, democratic theory, and intergenerational justice. We particularly welcome applications from potential research students to work with us in any area of normative political thought. 

Events

Free Market Fairness

Date
03 - 04/06/2013
Location:
Highfield House
Description
CONCEPT - The Nottingham Centre for Normative Political Theory will host a two-day conference around John Tomasi's recent book Free Market Fairness.

The Transformation of Western and Asian Military Forces

Date
13 - 14/06/2013
Location:
Highfield House
Description
This two-day conference is jointly organised by the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies and the Centre for Security and Terrorism, The School of Politics and International Relations. The conference seeks to compare and contrast how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges. It will look at the diverse array of tasks that military forces have been called upon to conduct, ranging from military intervention to peacekeeping and from counter-terrorism to state re-construction.

Latest News

New Head of School of Politics, History and International Relations, UNMC

Description
From July 2013, the School is delighted to announce that Dr Michael Connors will be our new Head of School at our School of Politics, History and International Relations, on our Malaysia campus.
Date:
14/05/2013

Professor Katharine Adeney takes over as Director of IAPS

Description
Professor Katharine Adeney became Director in 2013. Previously working at the LSE, Oxford and Sheffield, her research specialism is ethnic conflict regulation, the countries of South Asia and comparative democratisation.
Date:
29/04/2013

Congratulations to two PhD students!

Description
Ekaterina Kolpinskaya has been awarded the University's Gertrude Cropper Endowed Prize. This comes on top of Ekaterina winning one of the School's Cowan Scholarship Awards. Dr David Kiwuwa, has been awarded a paid Research Fellowship at Princeton University for coming academic year.
Date:
04/03/2013

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