Sisheng Chris ZHANG
FPI Fellow of Political Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
- Roger de Llúria (campus de la Ciutadella), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
- 08005 Barcelona
Area of Interests
Normative and Analytic Contemporary Political Theory
Ethics
Distributive Justice
Philosophy of Work
Self-Employment
Philosophy of Higher Education
Education
2021-2025
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Ph.D Law / Political Philosophy, “Justice, Autonomy, and Self-Employment”
- Supervisors: Iñigo González-Ricoy (Barcelona) and Jahel Queralt Lange (UPF)
- Examiners: Anca Gheaus (Central European), Tom Parr (Warwick), and Pablo Scotto (Barcelona).
2023 Q2
Concordia University, Canada
- Visiting Researcher, Centre for Social Justice and Department of Philosophy
- Supervisor: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia)
2017-2018
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- MA Political Philosophy, “Sufficiency: Distributive or Contributive?”
- Supervisors: Edward Page (Warwick) and Andrew Williams (ICREA-UPF)
2016-2017
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- MA Political and Legal Theory, double degree with Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2013-2016
University of Essex, United Kingdom
- BA(Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Employment
TBC 2027
Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
2021-2022
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- Research Assistant
- “Family Justice” for Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-UPF)
2016-2017
University of Warwick, Coventry
- Research Assistant
- “The Ethics of Santa Claus” for Matthew Clayton (Warwick) and Tom Parr (Warwick)
Teaching
2021-2024
Justice and Individual Rights, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Module leader: Jahel Queralt, and since 2024 Eze Paez
2021-2024
History of Political Philosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Module leader: Josep-Juan Moreso, and since 2023 Eze Paez
Certificate
- Received “Excellent” for Initial Training in University Teaching Programme (FIDU), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Funding
2021-2025
Full funding for PhD / FPI scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PGC2018-095917-A-I00
2017
Participation grant for “Equality and Citizenship Summer School 2017”, University of Rijeka
Work in Progress and Presentations
“Self-Employment and Relations of Occupational Inferiority”
Oct 2026 The 3rd Workshop of “Frontiers of Ethics and Political Philosophy”, Zhejiang University
“The Inversion of Meaningful Work”
Sep 2026 Public Reason and Just Community Workshop, East China Normal University
Apr 2026 21st Annual Doctoral Conference 2026, Central European University
“The Fractured Collective”
Jan 2026 The Sustainable Corporation: How to Secure Value in a Competitive World, University of Groningen
“Autonomy and Meaningful Work: a Bridge Thesis”
May 2025 UPF Law and Philosophy PhD Seminar
“How is Self-Employment Meaningful?”
October 2024 UPF Law and Philosophy PhD Seminar
“Is Well Done Enough?: An Analysis on Meaningful Work”
February 2024 Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory 2024
“Meaningful Work: a Double-Sided Coin”
October 2023 UPF Law and Philosophy PhD Seminar
“Meaningful Work as Reciprocity”
June 2021 UPF Law PhD Jornada Conference
“What is Distinctive about Contemporary Self-Employment?”
April 2021 UPF-UCLouvain Hoover Chair Workshop
A paper on an individualist conception of social contribution
“What Special Duties do the Self-Employed Owe to the Society?”
“Post-Work and Self-Employment”
“Meaningful Work as a Public Good”
Two papers on Sufficientarianism: 1) a critical reply, and 2) on Lottery
A paper on methodology, “on Itemisation”
Other Presentations
June 2021
“Justice and Self-Employment”
- SOAS Postgraduate Political Theory Workshop, online
July 2018
“If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You Like Lotteries?”
- The 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
February 2018
Commentator for Robert Huseby (Oslo), “Sufficiency and the Threshold Question”
- Sufficiency: Never Enough
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
May 2017
“Speech and National Self-Determination”
- University of Warwick MA Dissertation Conference
May 2016
“Should there be a right to Euthanasia? A case against Velleman”
- University of Essex Annual Government Student Conference
Administration and Organisation
Current
Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group, online
- Convenor, Cross-institution
Current
The Political Philosophy of Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Member
Current
Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy - BIAP, Universitat de Barcelona
- Member
2021-2024
Justice at Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Member
2022-2024
UPF Law & Philosophy PhD Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Co-Convenor, Law & Philosophy
2022-2024
UPF Law & Philosophy Mailing List, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Creator and Manager, Law & Philosophy
October 2022
Republicanism and Labor Justice, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat de Barcelona
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
July 2022
Labor Market and Workplace Justice Workshop, University of Oxford
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
July 2021
Labor Justice and Transformation of Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
Outreaching
Summer 2020
- Seminar on Sufficientarianism and Distributive Justice (in Chinese)
- 706 Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
Document Last Update: Tuesday, 1 September 2026