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Dr Luke Brunning

  • Position: Lecturer in Applied Ethics
  • Areas of expertise: Philosophy of love, sex, and relationships; applied ethics; ethics; philosophy of emotion; moral psychology.
  • Email: L.Brunning1@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: IDEA Centre
  • Website: Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

I joined the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in Applied Ethics in 2022. Previously I was a Lecturer in Ethics at the University of Birmingham and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. My DPhil ‘Integration, Ambivalence, and Mental Conflict’ was supervised by Prof. Edward Harcourt and awarded by Oxford University in 2015. Before that, I studied for an MPhil and BA in philosophy at King’s College London.

Research interests

At the moment my main research interests are romantic relationships, the emotions, applied ethics and moral life. 

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Qualifications

  • DPhil Philosophy
  • MPhil Philosophy
  • BA Philosophy

Research groups and institutes

  • Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships
  • Philosophy

Current postgraduate researchers

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