Dr Richard Williams joined TUM in 2025 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophy of Open Science research group in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich. His research explores philosophy and policy and how open science practices across diverse research environments can and should inform public policy.
Richard holds a BA in philosophy from Sheffield University and an MA and PhD in philosophy from Durham University. He previously worked as a University Teacher in Political Theory at Sheffield University.
He previously was a Ph.D. candidate on the ERC funded “Knowledge for Use” research project at Durham University, analysing at how evidence and deliberation should inform public policy.
- Democracy
- Evidence-Based Policy
- Open Science
- Expertise
- Political Economy
Williams, Richard Beadon. "Murderers on the Ballot Paper: Bad Apples, Moral Compromise, and the Epistemic Value of Public Deliberation in Representative Democracies." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 28, no. 1 (2024): 83–109.
Cartwright, N., Charlton, L., Juden, M., Munslow, T. and Williams, R. B. 2020.
Making predictions of programme success more reliable. CEDIL Methods Working Paper. Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL).
- Comparative Politics
- Critical Theory
- Dissertation Supervision
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Political Ethics
- Human Rights
- Liberalism
- Marx and Contemporary Marxism
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Economics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Political Economy
- Political Philosophy
- Political Theory
2021-22 Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
2017-20 Knowledge for Use Studentship, European Research Council
2012 The Peter H. Nidditch Prize in Philosophy, Sheffield University.
2011 The Peter H. Nidditch Prize in Philosophy, Sheffield University.