Wahida Khandker

Dr. Wahida Khandker is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in process philosophy, critical animal studies, and environmental humanities. She holds a BA/MA/PhD from the University of Warwick and is a Higher Education Academy Fellow. Her research explores intersections between continental philosophy and the life sciences, emphasizing non-human consciousness and ecological thought.

• Education: BA (Hons) Philosophy and Literature (Warwick), MA Continental Philosophy (Warwick), PhD Philosophy (Warwick)
• Professional Affiliations: Co-Chair of the Society for European Philosophy, Co-editor of Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy

Her work challenges anthropocentric frameworks through projects like the AHRC-funded Process Ecologies Network. Key publications include Philosophy, Animality, and the Life Sciences (2014) and Process Metaphysics and Mutative Life (2020), which re-examine environmental concepts using Bergson's 'dimensional milieu' theory. Current research focuses on rethinking space through Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy.

Teaching includes undergraduate courses on philosophy of the body and education, and postgraduate modules on Bergsonian thought and ethics of the Anthropocene. She supervises PhDs in process philosophy, French philosophy, and environmental humanities.

• Grants: Principal Investigator for AHRC-funded Process Ecologies Network
• Labs/Teams: Active in Society for European Philosophy and Process Philosophy book series