Visiting Fellows
Ben Cobley
Research Fellow
Ben Cobley joined Civitas in November 2019 as Research Fellow. He is the author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity.
David Conway
Professorial Research Fellow (Visiting)
Professor David Conway joined Civitas in 2004. Before joining Civitas he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Middlesex. His publications include A Farewell to Marx; Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal; Free-Market Feminism; The Rediscovery of Wisdom and In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism; A Nation of Immigrants?, 2007; and Liberal Education and the National Curriculum, 2009.
Malcolm Davies
Director of the Civitas Criminal Justice Unit (Visiting)
Professor Malcolm Davies joined Civitas in November 2000 as part-time Director of the Criminal Justice Unit.
Professor Davies is also Director of the Criminal Justice Centre based in Ealing Law School at Thames Valley University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley (1987/8 and 1990), and at the Law School at UC Davis (1987/8 and 1990); and, a visiting Lecturer on the International Criminal Law Programme in the Department of Criminal Law and Procedures, at the University of Helsinki (1994 and 1996).
Jon Gower Davies
Senior Research Fellow (Visiting)
Jon Davies joined Civitas as visiting senior research fellow in 2008. He is author of A New Inquisition: religious persecution in Britain today and Mind Forg’d Manacles.
Catherine Hakim
Professorial Research Fellow (Visiting)
Dr Catherine Hakim joined Civitas in 2013. Her personal website is here.
Rumy Hasan
Professorial Research Fellow (Visiting)
Rumy Hasan joined Civitas in August 2019. Since the 2005 London suicide bombings, his research has focused on the situation of Muslims in the west, concerns about segregation and social cohesion and the causes of radicalisation. His books include Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths, 2010, and Religion and Development in the Global South, 2017. He has worked with former EHRC chairman Trevor Phillips on integration and in 2015 became a member of the EU’s Radicalisation Awareness Network. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex.
Robert Peal
Education Research Fellow (Visiting)
Robert joined Civitas in 2013, having spent two years on the Teach First programme teaching history in a secondary school in Birmingham. He is the author of Progressively Worse: The burden of bad ideas in British schools and Playing the Game: The enduring influence of the preferred Ofsted teaching style.
Peter Saunders
Professorial Research Fellow (Visiting)
Professor Peter Saunders joined Civitas in 2010. He is the author of Social Mobility Truths and Restoring a Nation of Home Owners: What went wrong with home ownership in Britain, and how to start putting it right. His personal website is here.
Emma Webb
Associate Fellow
Formerly the Director of the Forum on Integration, Democracy and Extremism (FIDE) at Civitas and a research fellow at the Centre for Radicalisation and Terrorism at the Henry Jackson Society, Emma’s research has focused on how Islamist extremist groups in the UK and Europe establish or exploit organisations and institutions, the social dimensions of extremist networks, funding of extremism, counter-extremism policy and Prevent, and the extremism-free speech debate. She has written extensively on these subjects, has advised the public sector, been featured on national and international media, and has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Spectator, among others. Emma has an MA in Theological and Religious Studies from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and an MA from King’s College London (KCL).