My first teaching post was in the Department of Political Theory and Government at University College, Swansea, in 1967. After four years in Wales, I returned to LSE, to the Department of Government, where I am now Professor of Government.
Since coming to LSE I have variously been Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, opera critic for Tribune and, within LSE (where I contribute the Rodent's Rambles column to the LSE magazine) have taught undergraduate, graduate, and research students.
I am married to the medical sociologist Professor Helen Roberts, who is based at University College London.