Professor Brian Salter
Professor of Politics
Research interests
- Politics
Contact details
Biography
Professor Brian Salter is deputy head of department and responsible for the development and implementation of the department's strategy.
Most recently, he has explored the role of British university intellectuals in the ideological conflict surrounding Brexit, the underlying cultural foundations of that conflict, and the capacity of the British state to respond and adapt to the demands it generates.
An experienced flight instructor and flight examiner, Brian is the only professor in the UK to have flown a Second World War Spitfire and force landed a civilian aircraft at Williams Air Force Base in the United States.
Research
His research deals with the political sociology of power in the domains of science, health and education focusing in particular on the role of ideology and markets in the control of knowledge. In biomedicine he explores the global politics driving the governance response to new health technologies, the impact of the emerging economies and the role of bioethics in that process. In the case of ageing, he applies a Gramscian framework to an analysis of how health consumers have established a market based counter-hegemony to the ideology of decline.
- Global politics of innovation and biomedicine
- Hegemony, markets and intellectuals
- Brexit and the British state
Teaching
Research
Global Biopolitics Research Centre
The Global Biopolitics Research Centre at King's College London is an international, interdisciplinary centre comprised of academics conducting research projects and consultancy work in global biopolitics.
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Global South Research Group
The Global South research group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
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'More controversy to come' in UK's divided political culture
Constitutional controversy is likely to become a more permanent feature of political life in the UK driven by the country’s divided political culture,...
Research
Global Biopolitics Research Centre
The Global Biopolitics Research Centre at King's College London is an international, interdisciplinary centre comprised of academics conducting research projects and consultancy work in global biopolitics.
Status not setGlobal South Research Group
The Global South research group brings together scholars engaged in research on international political and economic trends, non-European perspectives, and south-south comparisons.
Status not setNews
'More controversy to come' in UK's divided political culture
Constitutional controversy is likely to become a more permanent feature of political life in the UK driven by the country’s divided political culture,...