Helen Anne Brown Coverdale

My research centres on the ethical qualities of interactions between individuals and the state, with a focus on equality and inclusion. I specialise in care and relational ethics, and in the philosophy of criminal punishment. I’ve an emerging interest in the ethics of technology broadly understood, and in making ethics accessible to engineers.

I currently work as a Research Associate in the Law School at the University of York, on Matt Matraver’s Leverhulme Research Fellowship - Criminalisation and punishment: philosophical theory and practical reality. I am also a Lecture (Teaching) in Political Theory in the Political Science Department at UCL.

Previously, I worked in the criminal justice sector, and as a researcher in the Westminster Parliament. I hold an AHRC funded PhD (Law, LSE), an MA in Legal & Political Theory (UCL) and a BA (Econ) hons specializing in Government (Manchester). I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, hold two UCL Faculty Education Awards, and I am regularly nominated for student-led UCL Choice Awards.