Professor Colin Tyler

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, moral panics, 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 is the Director of Research and Enterprise in the Business School. He served as the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) in the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics (July 2000 to June 2023, August 2024 to July 2025). He is Director of both the 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 civil disobedience, 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.