Democratic Audit

Tim Bale graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.  After teaching English in Spain, he did a Masters Degree at Northwestern University in the USA.  Following a few years spent working for the NHS, he returned to do a PhD at the Department of Politics at Sheffield University, where he then lectured for a year.  After Sheffield, he taught politics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.  He joined the department at Sussex in 2003 and has been the Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Politics since 2004.  Tim is also the Department's Official Representative for the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and for four years was the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research's annual Political Data Yearbook.  In 2008 he won the Political Studies Association's Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching.  He is also the convenor of the PSA's specialist group on Conservatives and Conservatism and provides an Internet Guide to European Politics. Tim's media work includes writing for the Financial Times and the Guardian, and he has appeared on various BBC radio and television programmes.  He occasionally tweets @ProfTimBale.