Dr Matthew Bennett

Matthew is currently the Senior Research Officer in philosophy with the Competition and Competitiveness Project at the University of Essex. His research interests include ethics and political philosophy (especially trust and social competition), post-Kantian European philosophy (especially Nietzsche), and bioethics. Matt was previously a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Research Impact Manager at Essex, where he completed his PhD on Nietzsche's philosophy of freedom. 

 

Matt believes that University education is too often treated as a stepping stone to the job market, and that education’s intrinsic value is far from fully appreciated. He also think that continuing education is a very important way to undermine the idea that the sole purpose of universities is to allocate further credentials to a minority of school leavers.