Professor Adrian Blau
Professor of Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy · King's College London
Quick answer: Professor Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics at King's College London. Professor Adrian Blau shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Adrian is interested in supervising PhDs on areas within his research expertise, especially:
- democratic theory and practice, including deliberative democracy;
- history of political thought, especially the work of Thomas Hobbes;
- corruption;
- rationality, irrationality, and post-truth politics;
- the methodology of political theory and history of political thought, as well as philosophy of so
Research interests
Politics
Selected publications (since 2023)
Adrian Blau, ‘Intellectual history as a symbiosis between history and philosophy’, History of European Ideas 50:4 (2023). Link.
Adrian Blau, ‘Why do so many scholars try and fail to draw contemporary insights from the history of political thought?’, Scienza & Politica 35 (2023). Link (my article is pp. 17-30 of the PDF).
Adrian Blau, ‘Thomas Hobbes in racist context’, Hobbes Studies 36:1 (2023). Link.
Adrian Blau, ‘Political equality and political sufficiency’, Moral Philosophy and Politics 10:1 (2023). Link.
Adrian Blau, ‘Philosophical analysis’, in Cary Nederman and Guillaume Bogiaris, eds., Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2024), 7-18. Link.
Frequently asked questions
Is Professor Adrian Blau hiring PhD students at King's College London?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Professor Adrian Blau's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Adrian is interested in supervising PhDs on areas within his research expertise, especially:
- democratic theory and practice, including deliberative democracy;
- history of political thought, especi.
What does Professor Adrian Blau research?
Politics
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
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