Dr. Thomas Campbell

Dr. Tom Campbell is Deputy Director (Education) at the Leeds Institute for Societal Futures and Associate Professor of Social Theory in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His work spans social and political thought, disability studies, and the history of social theory, with particular interests in modernity, biopolitics, exclusion, and the political imagination of the disabled people’s movement.

He is the author of Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence (Palgrave, 2026) and Dyslexia: The Government of Reading (Palgrave, 2013), and co-editor of three volumes of Zygmunt Bauman’s selected writings - Culture and Art (2021), History and Politics (2023), and Theory and Society (2025) - which draw extensively on previously unpublished material from the Bauman Collection at Leeds.

In collaboration with colleagues and the Brotherton Library Cultural Collections team, he has also contributed to the development of the Janina and Zygmunt Bauman Archive. In his teaching, he has developed object-based learning approaches that make use of the University’s Cultural Collections and Makerspace.

His current work includes research on AI, disability and neurodiversity, as well as educational leadership on challenge-led, interdisciplinary postgraduate provision across the University.