Dr Anthony English

Dr. Anthony English is a political psychologist and postdoctoral researcher for the Horizon-funded OppAttune project which seeks to track, attune, and limit the spread of political extremism in everyday contexts. Anthony completed his PhD in 2022 after joining the Open University's School of Psychology as recipient of the Rachael Webb Political Psychology Studentship. The focus of his thesis was on exploring dialogical positionality and its explanatory value for understanding how polarised political actors could sustain dialogue. The polarised political issue in this instance being the UK’s global relations in a post-Brexit context. Upon completion of his thesis, he lectured at Lancaster University on both the personality psychology and research method modules, and is affiliated with the psychology department as a visiting researcher.