Given the increasing need to professionalize graduates in a competitive academic job market, the Department has set up a Placement Office for the first time as of September 2009. The Placement Office is responsible for PhD students’ overall professional development. In practice much of this involves training, supporting, and monitoring PhD academic work experience through the use of PhD students as teaching assistants on the undergraduate programmes. But it also involves supporting students’ supervisors, who remain the student’s first port of call, in preparing students more directly for the job market: alerting students to relevant academic jobs, conferences, networking opportunities, and offering advice on interviews and applications.

A selection of recent placements appears below.

2012/13

•  Frank Chouraqui Thesis title: 'Philosophies of Ambiguity: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth'; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Koc University, Istanbul.

• Joseph Kuzma Thesis title: 'The Exigency of Return in Nietzsche and Blanchot'; Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

•  Merten Reglitz (Warwick Departmental Fellowship/AHRC/DAAD) Thesis title: 'Global Egalitarianism as a Practice-Independent Ideal'; Fixed Term Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Central European University.

2010/11

• Gavin Rae Thesis title: 'Hegel, Sartre and the Ontological Structure of Consciousness'; Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo.
• Oliver Rashbrook (Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship/AHRC) Thesis title: 'The Unity of Consciousness and the Ontology of Mind'; Career Development Lectureship, Jesus College, Oxford.
• Louise Richardson (AHRC) Thesis title: ‘What Distinguishes the Senses?’; Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of York.
• Liam Shields (Warwick Departmental Fellowship) Thesis title: 'The Prospects for Sufficientarianism'; Fixed Term Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Manchester.

2008/09

• Richard Moore (Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship) Thesis title: 'Learning To Do Things with Words'; Two year post-doctoral fellowship from 1/10/09 at Max Planck Institute, Leipzig.
• Louise Richardson (AHRC) Thesis title: ‘What Distinguishes the Senses?’; Junior Research Fellowship, Christ Church College, Oxford.
• Ioannis Trisokkas (AHRC/Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship/DAAD) Thesis title: ‘Truth, concept and judgement: Hegel’s Resolution of the Pyrrhonian Problematic;’ Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies Early Career Fellowship 2009; Temporary Lectureship, Philosophy, University of Sheffield 2009/10.
• Ignacio Avila (Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship) Thesis title: ‘Perception, Objectivity and Space’; Tenured Lecturer, Philosophy, National University of Colombia, Bogota.
• Henry Somers-Hall (AHRC/DAAD) Thesis title: ‘Dialectics of Difference and Negation: The Responses of Deleuze and Hegel to Representation'; Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University.

2006/07

• Thomas Greaves (AHRC/Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship/DAAD) Thesis title: ‘Poverty of Environmentalism;’ Temporary Lecturer, Philosophy, UEA.
• Gloria Ayob (Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellowship) Thesis title: ‘The role of Perceptual Experience in Demonstrative Thoughts’; Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, UCLAN.
• Soroush H Dabbagh Thesis title: ‘Moral Reasons: Particularism, Patterns and Practice;’ Assistant Professor, Iranian Institute of Philosophy.
• Wahida Khandker (AHRC) Thesis title: 'Subjectivity and Creativity in Bergson;' Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University.
• Elizabeth Mitchell (Phil/lit) Thesis title: ‘Feminist Philosophy of the Self;’ Senior lecturer, Christchurch, Canterbury.

In addition, PhD students who spent time in the department during this period have gone on to secure JRFs at Cambridge, Research fellowships at ANU, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, and posts at Copenhagen, UCL, and Ohio State.

2004/05

Students who graduated pre-2006 have been anonymised.

• (AHRB/Warwick Postgraduate Studentship); (Phil/Lit) Thesis title: ‘The Philosophy of Antonin Artaud;’ Lecturer, School of European Languages and Culture, University of Kent.
• (AHRB); Thesis title ‘Kant and Nietzsche on Free Will;’ Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Cabot University, Rome.
• Thesis title ‘Two Alternative Accounts of Justice;’ Professor of Political Philosophy and Ethics, IMS University Kaunas (Lithuania).
• (AHRB); (Phil/Lit) Thesis title: ‘Romanticism and Philosophy;’ Lecturer, Dept of French, Kings College London.
• (AHRB); Thesis title: ‘Heiddeger and Ethics’ Research Fellow, Philosophy, Sussex University 2007–2009
• (ORS); Thesis title: ‘Kant and Heidegger’, Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, Dundee University.
• ‘Relation Kant and Hegel’ Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Amsterdam University.
• ‘Philosophical Status of Moral Philosophy’ (fixed term) Lecturer, Dept of Philosophy, University of Durham.
• ‘On Friendship;’ Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London.