Samuel Clark

2025-08-28 03:08:43

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations, University of Reading

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I am working towards a PhD in Politics at the University of Reading, under the supervision of Dr. Maxime Lepoutre. My research concerns the ethics and democratic potential of humour. Specifically, I am interested in humour's potential to enhance deliberation, how it can be used to talk back to ignorant, bigoted, and hateful speech, and theorizing the conditions that must hold for it to successfully play these roles.

Before I started my PhD in September 2024, I was awarded the W.B. Fisher Prize at Durham University for the highest performing Geography undergraduate in the BA and BSc programmes (2020-23) and the Peter Campbell Prize at the University of Reading for academic excellence in the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Master's programmes (2023-24). I was also awarded the Don and Alleen Nilsen Young Scholar (DANYS) Award at the 2025 meeting of the International Society for Humor Studies.

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–present PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations, University of Reading

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2024 University of Reading, Politics and International Relations

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