Mihaela Popa-Wyatt

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt is a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on Philosophy of Language, Meta-ethics, and Social Epistemology, particularly examining how oppressive speech reinforces social hierarchies. She holds a Marie Curie fellowship background and has been an independent research fellow at the University of Birmingham and a Beatriu de Pinos Fellow at LOGOS Barcelona.

Her current projects include the 'Good Speech Project' (2023-2025) and 'Online Harms and Trust: Incel Communities' (2022-2023), collaborating with researchers like Justina Berškytė and Graham Stevens. She teaches Applied Philosophy and Language & Oppression, and serves as the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) officer in her department.

Popa-Wyatt organizes workshops such as 'Harmful Content (Online and Offline)' and 'Themes in Oppressive Speech,' and her work engages with UN SDGs related to justice and strong institutions. She co-organizes the Philosophy Film Club with Jonathan Hourigan and contributes to public debates on hate speech and digital trust through platforms like the Royal Institute of Philosophy.