Dr Paul Moran

Senior Lecturer

Chester School of Education
Dr Paul Moran

I am interested in the philosophy of everyday experience, and in particular the everyday experience of marginalised people and their relationship with forms of established authority. I recently completed a five year ethnographic study of chronically homeless people, and am now part of a project investigating what home means for people who live in precarious circumstances, including homeless people and Palestinians in the occupied territories. In the past, I have also completed research projects on looked after children and adoption. I am happy to consider supervising research about people who are marginalised and the philosophy of everyday experience, especially, but not exclusively, in relation to chronic homelessness and substance abuse.

Undergraduate – research and research practice.

MA – research design.

Doctoral – supervision in the areas described above, and a module on institutions, discontinuities and systems of thought.

I am happy to consider supervising research about people who are marginalised and the philosophy of everyday experience, especially, but not exclusively, in relation to chronic homelessness and substance abuse.

Moran, P. and Atherton, F. (2018) A Philosophy of Homelessness London: Routledge

Moran, P. (2017) “The future of educational research: has Nietzsche led the way?” Research in Education

Moran, P. (2016) “Towards a Nietzschean pedagogy of the city” Power and Education

Moran, P. (2016) “Accommodating radical water practice: an ethnographic study of a looked after child in a mainstream primary school” Other Education

Moran, P. (2012) “Deleuze and the queer ethics of an empirical education” Studies in Philosophy and Education

PhD, University of Birmingham