Welcome, and thanks for visiting! I am a moral and political philosopher with research interests in animal ethics, the philosophy of food, liberal and libertarian political theory, and applied ethics. I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, where I have been based since 2022. I have also worked at the University of Sheffield, the University of York, and Queen’s University in Canada, and was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast in 2016.
I have published two books, including 2023’s Food, Justice, and Animals from Oxford University Press, which was shortlisted for the Siobhan O’Sullivan Book Prize. I was the winner of the 2016 Res Publica postgraduate prize and the 2024 Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Early Career Prize. Major grants I’ve won include a 2019 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
You can follow me on Twitter @JoshLMilburn, on Instagram @aveganphilosopher, or on Bluesky @joshmilburn.bsky.social. I also regularly interview academics writing about relationships between humans and animals for the podcast Knowing Animals.
If you want to know more about me or my work, feel free to have a look around this website or get in touch.
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