亚色视频

Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences

Tom is a political sociologist whose research and teaching sit at the intersection of political economy and social theory. He has published and lectured extensively on the ideological direction of the British Conservative Party, the relationship between political theory and the economy, and work and welfare in the UK and Scandinavia. This focus on how ideas are put into practice is reflected in his teaching agenda which takes concepts like ideology, power and work and asks students to think about how they manifest themselves in the real world. He has also taught extensively on research methodologies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is currently co-Principal Investigator of the research project: What Happened to the Affluent Worker? Deindustrialisation and Identity in Luton.

Tom took up his position in Applied Social Sciences in 2017 and is Course Coordinator for the BA (hons) Social Sciences. He received his Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded doctorate from University College London in 2017 for a thesis on competing political discourses of British and Scandinavian welfare.

Qualifications

• PhD 鈥� University College London
• MSt 鈥� Mansfield College, University of Oxford
• BA (hons) 鈥� University of Manchester

Teaching 2022/23

Undergraduate

• ASS100-1 Introduction to Research and Social Enquiry
• ASS116-2 Power in Political Thought
• ASS068-2 Comparing Welfare Internationally
• ASS145-3 Work and Welfare in the 21^st Century
• ASS010-3 Ideas and Issues in Globalisation
• ASS139-3 Dissertation supervision

Postgraduate

• ASS130-6 Research Methods 2: Design, data collection and ethics
• ASS009-6 The Conceptual Framework

Research Interests

• Conservatism, reaction and The Conservative Party
• Political sociology and history of the international Right
• Twentieth-century economic, social and political theory
• Work, unemployment and deindustrialization

Publications

Articles, Chapters, Books

Hoctor, T. (2022) 鈥楨verything old is 鈥渘eo鈥� again: towards a Marxist hermeneutic approach to political economy鈥�, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 27(5), pp.148-161

Hoctor, T. (2022) 鈥楬ow the signified went missing in twentieth-century economic theory: Schumpeter, Mises and Hayek and the abolition of value鈥�, New Political Science 44(2), pp.336-352

Hoctor, T. (2022) 鈥楾he consumer, the market and the universal aristocracy: the ideology of academisation in England鈥�, Journal of Consumer Culture. Online First

Hoctor, T. (2021) 鈥楾he Neoconservative Party, or conservatism without tradition: reading Conservative ideology in the 2020s鈥�, Political Quarterly 92(3), pp.453-460

Hilson, M. and T. Hoctor (2021) 鈥楩rom the 鈥渕iddle way鈥� to The Nordic Way: Changing Rhetorics of the Nordic Model in Britain鈥�, in J. Marjanen, J. Strang and M. Hilson (eds.) Contesting Nordicness from Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand, Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History 2, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp.81-102

Hoctor, T. (2021) 鈥楤everidge or Bismarck? Choosing the Nordic model in British healthcare policy 1997-2010鈥� in H. Byrkjeflot, L. Mj酶set and K. Petersen (eds.) The Making and Circulation of Nordic models. London: Routledge, pp.209-228

Hoctor, T. (2020) 鈥楥oming to terms with the market: accounts of neoliberal failure and rehabilitation on the British right鈥�, British Politics 0(0), pp.1-16.

Hoctor, T. (2020) The economic response to Covid-19 and the Conservative Party鈥檚 failure to depart from Thatcherite orthodoxy鈥�, LSE British Politics and Policy. 1^st September. Available at:

In addition, Tom has acted as a reviewer for inter alia: Politics and Governance, The Journal of Consumer Culture and as an external evaluator for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

(All publications can be found for free at: )

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Invited Conference papers, symposia and seminars

April 2023

Political Studies Association Conference. University of Liverpool. 鈥榃hat happened to the Affluent Worker? Advanced deindustrialisation, class and perpetual crisis in an East of England town鈥�

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March 2023

Human Relations 75^th Anniversary Conference. Tavistock Institute. 鈥榃hat happened to the Affluent Worker? Deindustrialisation and class in an East of England town鈥�

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September 2022

Political Studies Association 鈥� British and Comparative Political Economy, Manchester Metropolitan University. 鈥楻eactionary visions of political economy for the post-pandemic era鈥�.

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June 2022

亚色视频 Annual Research Conference 2022. 鈥楾he Conservative Party and Ideology in an Age of Internationalisation on the Right鈥�

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February 2022

Guest speaker: Gender Studies Postgraduate Winter School. 鈥榃omen-friendly welfare states? Gendered theories of welfare鈥�. London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

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February 2022

Guest Lecture: Research Series 鈥� Law School, Arden University 鈥楾he Death of Conservatism?鈥�

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July 2021

Guest Lecture: Gender Studies Postgraduate Summer School. 鈥榃omen-friendly welfare states? Gendered theories of welfare鈥�. London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

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March 2021

Political Quarterly Special Issue Workshop. Andrew Gamble and the Conservative Party

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February 2020

Guest Lecture: Gender Studies Postgraduate Winter School. Guest Lecture: 鈥榃hat happened to the Affluent Worker? The gendered nature of the decline of affluence in Luton鈥�. London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

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March 2019

Third Nordic Challenges Conference, Copenhagen Business School. Paper: 鈥楾aking back control, but how much? Norway, Canada and the Brexit debate鈥�.

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April 2018

BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking, Learning from Sweden. Arts and culture radio programme on the social and political links between Britain and Sweden.

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March 2018

Second Nordic Challenges Conference, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki. Paper: 鈥楢 research agenda with(out) a history: rediscovering the Freudian origins of nation branding鈥�.

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October 2018

The Making and Circulation of Nordic models. Network meeting at the Norwegian Institute, Sciences Po, Paris.

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March 2017

Global Challenges: Nordic Experiences, University of Oslo. 鈥樷�淚t is a bit like IKEA: everything is simple and the same鈥�. Is there a Nordic model of New Public Management in British public policy?鈥�

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December 2016

Rhetorics of Nordicness network meeting, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki. With Prof. Mary Hilson 鈥淩hetorical uses of the Nordic model in political and ideological debates in the UK during the 2000s and 2010s鈥�.

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June 2016

4^th International PhD Conference of the Association for Political History

Neoliberalism with a Nordic face? UK governance networks and flexicurity c.2000-2015

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March 2016

School of Culture and Communication, University of Aarhus. A New Economic Celebrity: Denmark and flexicurity

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Contact Details

E: tom.hoctor@beds.ac.uk