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Dr. Kerri Woods is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leeds, affiliated with the School of Politics and International Studies within the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds leadership roles as Deputy Head of School and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Political Theory, while also serving as an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
Her academic journey includes a PhD from the University of Glasgow and postdoctoral research as a British Academy Fellow at the University of York. Woods specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with a focus on human rights theory, environmental ethics, feminist thought, and refugee solidarity. Her research interrogates intersections between ecological sustainability, moral obligations, and collective agency in global contexts.
Recent scholarly work explores themes such as political solidarity’s normative demands, empathy in refugee narratives, and climate justice frameworks. She teaches advanced modules including the Philosophy of Human Rights (PIED3608) and actively supervises postgraduate researchers like Hope Sara Bachmann. Woods has contributed to high-impact publications like the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory and regularly engages with editorial duties to shape political science discourse.
Her research outputs reflect a commitment to bridging theoretical debates with urgent global challenges, from climate mitigation ethics to cosmopolitan obligations. Grants and collaborations have supported projects analyzing environmental human rights and solidarity mechanisms in crises.
