Professor Tim Bale MA, PhD

Tim Bale is Professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London, having previously held the same position at Sussex University, which he joined in 2003.

He graduated from Cambridge University, completed his Masters Degree at Northwestern University in the USA, and his PhD at Sheffield University, where he then lectured for a year.After Sheffield, he taught politics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Tim is an Official Representative for the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and, together with Ingrid van Biezen of Birmingham University, is the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research's annual Political Data Yearbook. His book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron was published in 2010.