Staff Tutor Social Sciences& Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, School of Social Sciences& Global Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University in Scotland My working relationship with The Open University began in the mid-1980s when I started tutoring on Social Sciences modules. I continued as an OU tutor until 2000. I have been in my current post as a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, and Staff Tutor Social Sciences, at The Open University in Scotland since December 1998. Previously I was Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Paisley (now the University of the West of Scotland). In the past I have taught Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee, at the University of Glasgow and I have also taught at the University of Stirling. Since 2000 I have also been a visiting lecture at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2006, I have been an Honorary Fellow of the Centre and regularly contribute public lectures to their programme of events. Between 2008 and 2011 I was also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde, and I am at present Visiting Professor of Scottish Studies, University of Wisconsin River Falls, USA.
Dr Gerry Mooney