Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Chair of the Teaching and learning Committee
Chair of the Staff-Student Committee

Qualifications

Ph.D (Warwick) MA (Warwick) BA (Hons.)(Staffordshire University)

Honours and Awards

Post-doctoral position at the Technical University Berlin, Germany

Research Interests

Miriam Baldwin's major interests lie in German Philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche; German Romanticism; Critical Theory: Adorno and Habermas; Methodology of the Social Sciences; contemporary social theory; narrative, identity, and sustainability.

Other Expertise

Miriam is active in promoting the educational and cultural importance of art centred on issues of social oppression, subjugation, suffering. She has been involved in work concerned with the way art responds to the Holocaust, and has collaborated, through writing, with the artist Iris Berger. Website: www.artandannefrank.co.uk

Current Work

Miriam is currently using the philosophy of Kant and the aesthetic theory of Schiller to re-think ways in which contemporary art can respond to transition periods like our own shaped by environmental and economic pressures of scarcity. She asks about the nature of responsibility the artist has to society, social critique and the representation of suffering.

Undergraduate Teaching

Selected Philosophical Texts (PHI:1002)
Ethics of the Natural and Human Environment (PHI:2006)
The Networked Society (PHI:3006)
Project Module, stages 1,2,3(PHI:1004,2004,3004)