Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė PhD

Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research and Policy Fellow

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Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė works in international ethics and organisational studies. She is particularly interested in how ethics is practised in the public sector and international organisations. In her research, she explores how norms and values translate into organisational practices, structures, and professional roles.

Biography

Before joining the University of Birmingham as a postdoctorate researcher, Dr Antanavičiūtė completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. In her thesis, she looked into practices of ethics and ethical expertise in international non-governmental organisations.

In 2022, her paper ‘The practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism’ won the International Studies Association‘s Frances V. Harbour Graduate Student Paper Award.

Teaching

Dr Antanavičiūtė has experience teaching courses on ethics, political theory, international political thought, and global governance.

Research

  • international ethics
  •  institutional and organisational ethics
  • democratic epistemologies
  • politics of knowledge
  • participatory democratic practices in international politics
  • political thought of Jane Addams

Other activities

Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė has 10 years’ experience working in charitable sector in policy and research roles. She often takes part in consultancy projects within charitable and public sectors.

Publications

Antanavičiūtė, M. (2023). Jane Addams’s Feminist Pragmatism and International Political Thought. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy15, 1