I am a postdoctoral scholar (Policy & Research Fellow) at ESRC-funded “Ethics & Expertise” project, based at University of Birmingham. The project (2023-2026) focuses on why Governments are not currently following their own ethical advice during times of crisis, what this means for policy decision-making and ultimately, how this influences outcomes for citizens. The project will analyse three case studies (UK, Germany and Australia) to produce actionable insights and guidance for civil servants.

Previously, I completed my PhD at the School of Politics and International relations, Queen Mary University of London. My research project, titled “Experimentation as a the practice of ethics: the limits of responsibility in international non-governmental organisations”, explored different ways we approach the practice of ethics. In particular, the project used pragmatist lens to understand ethics as reiterative and collaborative practices in organisational environment and wider political governance landscape. I also explored ethical experitise within a particular vocational group and created recommendations and actionable guidance on how staff occupying highly specialised roles could make more ethical decision.

My wider research interests include international ethics, ethical decision making in bureucracies, and ethics in conditions of uncertainty, crisis and social change. I am particularly interested in pragmatist conceptions of democracy and intellectual thought of social activist Jane Addams.

Conferences and workshops

2023/2024

PSA March 2023

ISA April 2024

2022/2023

ISA April 2023

2021/2022

  • ISA April 2022
    • Conference paper “Hollowed out responsibility: large advocacy INGOs as competitive neoliberal organisations”
    • Conference paper “The everyday practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism”
    • Ethics section’s Frances V. Harbour Graduate Student Paper Award for my paper, ‘The practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism’
  • BISA June 2022
    • Conference paper “The practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism”

2020/2021

  • Presentation of the research paper in the online panel for BISA NGO & Civil society working group (online event), October 2020
  • Presentation of research in Accountable Now, workshop for INGO professionals, November 2020
  • ISA April 2021
    • Conference paper “Global responsibility as a judgement: normative learning, institutional ethics and practices of accountability in INGOs”
  • ISA Theory section emerging scholars workshop “Rationalism and Practice Theory – appraisal and new avenues”
  • BISA June 2021
    • Conference paper “The practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism”
  • EWIS workshops July 2021
    • Workshop “ ‘Fields’ of (Epistemic) Violence, Real-Life Encounters and Methodologies”

2019/2020

  • ISA 2020 (accepted, cancelled)
    • Paper “Global responsibility as a judgement: the case of accountability within international non-governmental organizations”
    • Paper “The responsibility of researcher: creating space for agency in the international political theory and the study of global justice”
  • BISA 2020 (accepted, cancelled)
    • Working group panel, paper “Responsibility through authenticity. The outline of individual responsibility in international non-governmental organizations.”
  • EWIS workshops (paper accepted, postponed to 2021)
    • Workshop “ ‘Fields’ of (Epistemic) Violence, Real-Life Encounters and Methodologies”s

2018/2019

  • BISA postgraduate conference, presented paper ‘Diversifying global ethics: practice of ethics in Mervyn Frost’s and Alasdair Macintyre’s thought’
Publications

Antanavičiūtė, M. (2023). Jane Addams’s Feminist Pragmatism and International Political Thought. Hull House as a Site of International Social Ethics. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 15(XV-1).

Available here.

Teaching experiences

Queen Mary University of London

Thinking Politically. TA on a 1st year political theory module on political ideologies. Responsibilities includes assignment, exam marking and online teaching.

The Politics of International law. TA on a 2nd year international law module.

Theories of International Relations. TA on a 2nd year module on the theories of international relations.

Global ethics. TA on a 3rd year module on normative issues in international politics

Politics of the developing world. TA on a 2nd year module 2022/2023.

Undergraduate Dissertation. Supporting the course and students completing their dissertation.

King’s College London.

Fundamentals of political research. TA on a 1st year module, covering methodological and scientific basis of political research.

Cosmopolitan political theory.