Dr Simon Stevens

Simon Stevens is a senior lecturer who writes and researches about homelessness and methods in political philosophy. He is currently writing a political theory textbook for SAGE, that aims to transform, decolonise and diversify the curriculum, and won the 2022 Political Studies Association Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching. He teaches political theory at DMU, which includes diverse subjects like Black feminist thought and queer theory alongside more conventional topics like power and social contract. 

Centre for Urban Research on Austerity

Stevens, S; Kinna, R. (2024) 'Anarchism, war, violence and scapegoating', Contemporary Political Theory - due June/July.

Stevens, S. (2024) 'Civil disobedience in the context of the marginalised', Theoria. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2024.7117801

Stevens, S; Easat-Daas, A. (2024) 'The Global History of the UK: colonialism and decolonisation', in An Introduction to UK Politics, SAGE - https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/an-introduction-to-uk-politics/book282077

Stevens, S. (2023) ‘Normative behaviourism: groups it cannot reach’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2281149

Stevens, S. (2023) ‘Homelessness, civil disobedience and Anti-Social Behaviour’, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour - https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12381

Stevens, S. (2023) ‘The Bureaucratisation of Civil Disobedience: what looks like order and what looks like anarchy?’, in Coronavirus, Crisis and Culture: Policing, Protest and the Mediation of Dissent During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Roman Littlefield International  - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538161104/Coronavirus-Crisis-and-Culture-Protests-Policing-and-Mediation-during-the-2020-Pandemic

Stevens, S. (2021) ‘Leper Islands: Coronavirus and the Homeless Other’, in Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse, Routledge - http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003147299-18

Stevens, S. (2017) Life and letting Die: A Story of the Homeless, Autonomy, and Anti-Social Behaviour. Organization Studies Journal, 38(5), 669 – 690 (CWTS impact factor 2.67, submitted to REF 2014), Independent Social Research Foundation International Essay Competition 1st Prize - https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616686130

Political philosophy, methods in political philosophy, homelessness, civil disobedience. 

Political philosophy/theory

Doctor in Philosophy, MA in Political Theory, BA Hons in Modern History

Political Theory, Power, Politics and Morality, Political Ideologies, Comparative Government, Democracy and its Discontents. 

• PhD in Political Theory
• MA in Political Thought
• BA Hons in Modern History
• Winner of 2017 ISRF International Essay Competition
• PSA Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching

European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group Methods in Political Philosophy, 2016 - present

• Essential Teaching Skills 2016 Loughborough University
• CELTA teaching qualification 2008
• SFHEA

Currently I am working on a book exploring hostile architecture and homelessness, exploring theories of power and othering. 

‘Decolonising Political Theory’ in ‘The Methods in Comparative Political Theory’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Prague, 8^th September 2023.

‘Fictional Narratives: What They Are and When to Use Them’ in ‘Method in Political Theory’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Innsbruck, 23^rd August 2022. 

‘Normative Behaviourism – Groups it Cannot Reach’ in ‘Political Thought and the World Today’ Panel, Political Studies Association Annual Conference, York, 13^th April 2022.

‘How to be good at Telling others to be good: A Case for Epilogue Storytelling’ in ‘Ideal and Non Ideal Theory’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Wroclaw, 6th^h September 2019.

‘A Story of the Homeless and Anti-Social Behaviour’ in ‘Aspiring to Public Engagement’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Hamburg, Thursday 24^th August 2018. 

‘In Pursuit of the ‘Normative’ in Normative Theory’ in ‘Political Philosophy Concepts and Purposes’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Oslo, 8^th September, 2017.

‘What is Legitimate to Study? In Pursuit of the ‘Normative’ in Normative Theory’ in ‘The History of Political Thought: Methodological Approaches’ Panel, American Political Science Association Annual Conference, 1^st September 2017. 

‘The Concept of the Canon: Genealogy and its Contribution to Normative Arguments’ in ‘Historical Approaches to Political Theory’ Panel, European Consortium for Political Research Annual Conference, Prague, 9^th September 2016.

‘Genealogy and the Conversation of Mankind: Shouting in the Spaces of Silence’ in ‘Approaches to Political Thought’ Panel, Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Brighton, 23^rd March 2016. 

Currently in discussions with Shelter charity for a funding project

Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, £2000 for ethnographic research into the effects of hostile architecture upon the homeless, 2019.

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