Janne is wearing a burgundy knitted jumper with a zip. He has his UWL staff lanyard around his neck and black rectangular glass on. He has longish brown hair and a grey beard.

Dr Janne Mantykoski

Course Leader for Politics and International Relations
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
School of Human and Social Sciences
janne.mantykoski@uwl.ac.uk

Janne’s first degree was a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Kent, followed by a BA in English Language and Computing, also at Kent, and then an MA in Linguistics at UCL.

His research interests then pulled him from empirical linguistics towards the Philosophy of Linguistics and Language, and he completed another MA—this time in Philosophy—at UCL. Janne then moved to King’s College London to embark on his doctoral studies, completing an MPhil in 2002 on his way to a PhD in Philosophy he received in 2007. His dissertation was called Semantic Change: Holism, Truth and Relativism.

Janne was a Teaching Fellow at UCL from 2004 to 2006 and at King’s College London from 2006 to 2008. During this time he also taught modules at University of Hertfordshire and University of Notre Dame London Centre as a visiting lecturer. In addition, Janne was the Head of Philosophy at Lansdowne Sixth Form College from 2006 to 2008. At the end of 2008 Janne took a long career break to look after his daughters, returning to employment in the spring of 2014 on the Pyramid Project here at UWL.

In 2017 Janne was appointed a Lecturer in the School of Human and Social Sciences, lecturing and teaching on various modules around the school while also helping develop the Politics and International Relations course, which ran for the first time in September 2018. Our multidisciplinary pathway courses Politics with Sociology and International Relations with Sociology were added to our provision in 2020.

 

  • Qualifications

    BSc (University of Kent); BA (University of Kent; MA (UCL); MA (UCL); MPhil (King’s College London); GCAP (King’s College London); PhD (King’s College London).

  • Memberships

    Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
    Member of PSA (Political Studies Association)

Teaching

Janne's primary areas of expertise are Political Theory and Comparative Politics. In the Spring of 2022, he is teaching on the modules Introduction to Politics, Political Systems and Working in Political and International Contexts.

His current research interests are centred around the tensions between liberty and equality, especially around the politics of wealth creation, inequality, debt, automation and AI, job security, and universal basic income.

Research

  • Research and publications


    Technical reports

    Bernstock, P., Duncan, K., Gonzalez Simon, E., Higham, K., Hughes, B., Mantykoski J.; with Barley E. and Wigley, W. 2019; Evaluation of the Home-Start Slough Early Intervention to Prevent Statutory Intervention in 0-3-Year-Olds Project, January 2019, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11251.99369

    Refereed articles in academic journals

    Mantykoski, Janne 2006; Untranslatable languages: a defence for Davidson. Daimon: Revista de Filosofía, no 37, pp. 139–147.

    Mantykoski, Janne 2004; Davidsonian triangulation vs. the Matrix: the objective and the absolute. Philosophical Writings, Issue 25, pp. 49–65.

    Articles and chapters in edited books

    Mantykoski, Janne 2006; The Oracle Paradox Resolved. In Paradox: Logical, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication. Vol. 1. Riga: University of Latvia Press, pp. 181–188.

    Book reviews

    Mantykoski, Janne 2008; Review of Truth and Realism by Patrick Greenough & Michael P. Lynch (eds.); Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Mind. Vol. 117, No. 465, pp. 183–186.

    Mantykoski, Janne 2008; Review of From a Deflationary Point of View by Paul Horwich; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. The Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 56, Issue 225, pp. 616–619.

  • Conferences

    Recent talks

    Mantykoski, Janne 2017; British government administration and public service. Talk given to visitors from the Ministry of Education and Party School of Changzhou Municipal Committee, People’s Republic of China. UWL, 17 January.

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