Professor Colin Tyler

Post Nominals	AcSS, FRHistS, SFHEA
Biography	Colin Tyler in Professor of Applied Ethics and Political Theory, in the School of Politics and International Studies. His research and teaching focuses on the free society, British idealism and the New Liberalism, the theory and practice of social justice and common good politics both in historical and contemporary settings. Professor Tyler served as the Associate Dean (Research) (ADR) in the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics (FBLP), from July 2000 to June 2023, returning as Interim FBLP ADR in August 2024 to cover staff absence. Currently, he is also the Director of both the FBLP Institute of Applied Ethics, and the Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism, as well as convening the UK PSA British Idealism Specialist Group. He is a Fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Historical Society, as well as being a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Colin serves on the editorial board of Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, as well as the International Scientific Committee of the Italian scholarly journal Storia e Politica. Since being appointed at Hull University in 2000, Colin has published more than seventy books, critical editions, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with articles appearing in major international journals including Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of Social Theory, History of European Ideas, Journal of Information Ethics, Parliamentary Studies and Political Studies. His books have been published by Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, Continuum, and others. His most recent monograph is Common Good Politics: British idealism and social justice in the contemporary world (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). Colin has supervised many doctoral and MPhil students during his career, all to successful completion. Their topics have included British idealist theory and practice, issues relating to social justice including in relation to cultural diversity, contemporary political theory, applied international relations theory, Schmittian political theory and crisis management. His current doctoral students research topics in British idealism, civil disobedience, and the politics of the contemporary self. In addition, Colin has supervised many international visiting doctoral students and scholars, researching the influence of British idealist and New Liberal philosophy and practice in Belgium, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain and the UK. In 2023, Professor Tyler held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Lorraine, France. In the Fall of 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, USA. In 2018, he was a Visiting Professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. He has lectured at various universities in Italy, Japan and Poland, as well as being employed previously at the University of York and University College London. He is a Peer Reviewer for several grant funding bodies including the AHRC and Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej (Poland). He has been an AHRC Moderating Panel Member since 2020.
Research Interests	Free society, theory and applied Common good politics British idealism and the New Liberalism Jeremy Bentham's political thought History of European political thought since 1789
Teaching and Learning	History of Political Thought Critical political economy Civil disobedience Political theory and ideologies International relations theory
Scopus Author ID	7103198067
PhD Supervision Availability	Yes
PhD Topics	British idealist social and political thought and practice The free society, especially protest and civil disobedience Common good politics International relations theory Jeremy Bentham's political thought Social economics, especially critics of capitalism Doctoral supervisions: UOH students since 2019 • May 2022 to present: Wayne Williams, ‘The Philosophy of Animal Liberation’ (lead supervisor). • May 2022 to present: Howard Raper, ‘The Liberating the Self: F.H. Bradley and Foucault’ (lead supervisor). • July 2018 to September 2023 (primary supervisor from September 2020): Matthew Jones, ‘Crisis Management as a Schmittian state of emergency’ (joint supervisor). Awarded December 2023. Doctoral supervisions: Visiting international students since 2019 • 2023 (May-June), Baudouin de Guillebon (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), ‘R.G. Collingwood in France’ (second supervisor). • 2022 (Jan.-May), Andrea Pontalto (University of Trento, Italy), ‘Piero Martinetti and the British idealists’ (lead supervisor). • 2022 (Jan.-May), Giulio Cavalla (University of Parma, Italy), ‘F.H. Bradley and German metaphysics’ (lead supervisor).