Dr Francesco Tava

Biography	I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Social Sciences at UWE. My main research interests are in political philosophy, phenomenology, and applied ethics. I am particularly interested in problems surrounding the meaning and function of political solidarity in the European context. I am the author of The Risk of Freedom (2016), which analyses the political phenomenology of Czech philosopher and dissident Jan Patočka, and the editor of Phenomenology and the Idea of Europe (2017) and Thinking after Europe (2016). I have also published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2021), Philosophy Now (2021), Studies in East European Thought (2020), Metodo (2018), Filosofický Časopis (2018), the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2016), and Horizon (2016). I am currently working on several interdisciplinary research projects focusing on the construction of European solidarity (eurosolidarity.com); and ethical models of data access and governance (uwedragon.org). In 2020-21, I have been collaborating with colleagues from the Bristol Business School on the process evaluation of the Research & Development Programme of the Open Data Institute. At UWE, I am co-Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) Philosophy, where I teach modules on philosophical existentialism, Europe and decolonisation, and film-philosophy. In 2020-21, I am also Visiting Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy). I am keen on literature and film, and am one of the founders of Thought in Action – a partnership between UWE Philosophy and Politics & IR, Watershed, and MUBI.
Research Interests	Issues in contemporary political philosophy (transnational solidarity, historical memory, decolonial struggle, transitional justice); political phenomenology and theory (Patočka, Habermas, Arendt, Fanon); data ethics and governance (privacy, trust, openness, transparency); the Europe concept and its construction; film-philosophy.
Scopus Author ID	57190680592