Summary
Colin Tyler is the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, having been appointed to a Chair of Social and Political Thought in the School of Politics and International Studies in 2011. His research and teaching focuses on 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 the Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism, as well as convening the UK PSA British Idealism Specialist Group. Previously, he has been the Director of Hull’s Institute of Applied Ethics. 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.
Since being appointed at Hull University in 2000, Colin has published more than sixty 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).
In the Fall of 2014, Colin 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.