Education: MA, DPhil, University of Oxford

Career: Michael Freeden was appointed Professor of Politics, University Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies in the Department of Politics and International Relations in 1997. He is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College where he has been Tutor in Politics since 1978. He is currently an ESRC Professorial Fellow from 2004 to 2007, researching into the political theory of politics. His research activities and interests include the study of actual political thinking at various levels of articulation, liberal thought from the 19th century to the present day, and the specifically political features of political thinking and the distinctive methodologies that students of political thought might develop. Michael Freeden is founding editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies (see url below).

Publications include: The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform 1978, Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought 1914–1939 1986, J.A. Hobson: A Reader 1988, Minutes of the Rainbow Circle 1894–1924 (co-editor and annotator) 1989, Reappraising J.A. Hobson: Humanism and Welfare (editor) 1990, Rights 1991, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach 1996, Reassessing Political Ideologies: The Durability of Dissent (editor) 2001, Ideology: A Very Short Introduction 2003, Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth Century Progressive Thought 2005, Taking Ideology Seriously: 21st Century Reconfigurations (co-editor) 2006, The Meaning of Ideology: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (editor) 2007; numerous scholarly articles in politics, philosophy and history journals on welfare thinking and rights, on the nature and attributes of political concepts, on eugenics, on New Labour, on political practice, and on conceptual history

Contact details: Address: Room 139, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Manor Road Building, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 270977; Fax: +44 (0) 1865 278725; Website: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13569317.asp/ .