Philip Spencer

Professor Philip Spencer is Director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence, at Kingston University. The centre, which he founded in 2004, provides a focus for research and teaching in these areas. It is named in honour of the veteran rights campaigner Helen Bamber, who has devoted her life to the victims of conflicts across the world.

Professor Spencer's own research interests include the Holocaust; comparative genocide; nationalism; and anti-Semitism. He is also director of the university's European Research Department, where the central focus is on European political and cultural identity, with an overall concern for the changing forms, boundaries and future of Europe in the modern world.