Philip Luther-Davies joined the Department of Sociology in 2013 as a MPhil student working under the supervision of his current principal supervisor, Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley. Philip's MPhil dissertation, 'Identity, Discourse and Class in Israel: the 2013 Election Campaigns and Social Media', was awarded a Distinction, and Philip graduated into the PhD in Sociology in 2014.
His current PhD project is on how nationalism, ethnic cleavages and socio-economic inequalities impact municipal politics and general election outcomes in Israel. He is testing existing theories on Israeli identity and nationalist politics by conducting a thorough empirical analysis of three municipalities in Israel’s centre that has included fieldwork to interview political actors in those places as well as in the Knesset in Jerusalem.
Philip has a MA in Security Studies from Tel Aviv University and a BA (Hons) in International Relations from the University of Sussex.
