Education & Research

BSc (Hons) Sociology
Southampton University
Awarded 1985

Courses studied included: statistical methods; research methods; sociology of health and illness; psychology; philosophy; criminology; sociology of family and community; and sociological theory.

MSc Sociology
London School of Economics
Awarded 1987

Courses studied included: statistical and research methods; sociological theory; and political sociology.

PhD
London School of Economics
Awarded 1996

Thesis title: "Political mobilisation and the question of subjectivity".

Areas of research included: phenomenology; existential psychology; psychoanalysis; theories of populism; psychology and ritual; Thatcherism; theories of the State; philosophical idealism.