Dr Christine Hauskeller

Office Hours are Fridays 11.00-12,00 in my office in Byrne House.  

Please write an email to book your time. or if you need a different time. 

Areas of Expertise:

I am a philosopher with training in sociology and psychology also. My research interests include a range of topics in Moral Philosophy and Empirical Ethics, Feminist Philosophy and Decolonizing Approaches; Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Philosophy of Medicine, and Science and Technology Studies.

Present research foci are

- Philosophy and Psychedelics - for more info see sites.exeter.ac.uk/philosophyandpsychedelics/

- Decolonial and Feminist Ethics,

- Contemporary Relevance of Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School

- Philosophies of Nature

- Life science epistemology, governance and practice (esp. stem cell research and genomics)

Commissions of Trust include

Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences working group Ethic of Research with Brain Organoids 2020 - 22

German Zentrale Ethikkommission Stammzellforschung am Robert Koch Institut, 2014 - 2026

BBSRC Science and Society Strategy Panel, 2010-2016

ERC Grant Panels 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, Vice Chair Synergy Panel 2019

Panel member for a range of government and private research funding organizations across Europe.

Visiting Fellowships

2024 Aug.-Dec. at the Centre for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2019 Aug. - Sept. at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland

2018 Sept. - Oct. at the Beikçizade Center for Medical Humanities, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 May - June at NUS and Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

2015 Oct. - Dec. at the Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany

2015 June - July visit to Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2014 Sep. - Nov. at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva - Hermance, Switzerland

2008 Mar. - April at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Biography:

M.A. (1992) University Frankfurt on Main in Philosophy, Sociology and Psychoanalysis. MA dissertation (supervised by Axel Honneth, distinction).

Ph.D. (1999) Technical University Darmstadt. Dissertation on Michel Foucault's and Judith Butler's works, entitled "The Paradoxical Subject" (published monograph in German: Das paradoxe Subjekt, Unterwerfung und Widerstand bei Michel Foucault und Judith Butler, Tübingen edition diskord, 2000).

1999-2002 postdoctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt, IANUS Group and Institute for Religioius Studies. I collaborated closely with Prof. Wolfgang Bender on different research projects regarding the ethical aspects of  stem cell research and philosophy of nature and relationallity.  

In 2002 I moved to Exeter, initially as a research fellow in the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society. I became its Co-Director (2009 - 2012), managing a team of over 30 people and setting up working groups including the genetics and identity workstream with the ESRC Genomics Network. In additional I lead a ESRC funded bi-national compartive reseach proejct with a team of postdocs and PhD students on stem cell research 2007-2011. 

Since 2012 I have been in a full-time teaching post in Philosophy and Sociology at Exeter University, progressing to Professor.

Research supervision:

I supervise many PhD students, eight in 2025-26.

Please contact me via email with an outline your reserach plan and yoru CV if you want to apply for supervision in the following subject areas:

• Philosophy and Psychedelics
• Decolonial and Feminist Ethics and Philosopy
• Frankfurt School Critical Theory
• Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
• Norms and knowledge practices

I hold a regular PGR colloquium for my team in which we discuss draft work, chapters as well as readings suggested by members of the group.