Associate Fellows

Professor Stuart Jones

Professor of Intellectual History, The University of Manchester

Stuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester, where he convenes a research group on Political Cultures. He works mostly on liberal political thought in France and Britain, on international political thought, and on the conceptual history of modern European politics, with an emphasis on the deployment of abstract ideas in political argument.

He is also engaged in collaborative work on university history and the history of the humanities and social sciences. His publications include: Intellect and Character in Victorian England (C.U.P., 2007); Victorian Political Thought (Palgrave, 2000); and The French State in Question (C.U.P., 1993).

Professor David Laycock

Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

David Laycock is a professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include the comparative study of populism, conservatism and social democracy, contemporary normative democratic theory and the politics of representation, and public policy.

His publications include Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, The New Right and Democracy in Canada, Representation and Democratic Theory, co-edited books on public policy with Michael Howlett and Laurent Dobuzinskis, and a 2014 volume co-edited with Lynda Erickson on Canada's social democratic party, Reviving Social Democracy: The Near Death and Surprising Rise of the Federal New Democratic Party.

Professor Marc Stears

Director of the Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney

Marc was previously professor of political theory at the University of Oxford and chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, one of the United Kingdom's largest think tanks. His work focused on deepening partnerships with community groups who are often overlooked in the policy process. Between 2012 and 2015 he was chief speechwriter to the UK Labour Party, a co-author of the party’s 2015 election manifesto and a member of the party's general election steering committee.

He has also advised a number of commercial and non-commercial organisations on strategic communication, democratic inclusion and community engagement. In his academic work, Marc is an expert in democratic theory and the history of ideologies and social movements.

He is the author of Demanding Democracy (2010), Progressives, Pluralists and the Problems of the State (2002) and an editor of many volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies (2014).