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Selective Resume of Jeremy Stangroom, PhD
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INTERNET AND COMPUTING
PSYCHOLOGY
PHILOSOPHY
PUBLICATIONS
Education & Research
BSc (Hons) Sociology Southampton University Awarded 1985
Courses studied included: statistical methods; research methods; sociology
of health and illness; psychology; philosophy; criminology; sociology
of family and community; and sociological theory.
MSc Sociology London School of Economics Awarded 1987
Courses studied included: statistical and research methods; sociological
theory; and political sociology.
PhD Political Sociology London School of Economics Awarded 1996
Thesis title: "Political mobilisation and the question of subjectivity".
Areas of research included: phenomenology; existential psychology;
psychoanalysis; theories of populism; psychology and ritual; Thatcherism;
theories of the State; philosophical idealism.
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Teaching Experience
At degree level
Visiting Lecturer Sociology
Roehampton Institute of Higher Education (Degrees awarded by Surrey
University) 1988-1993
Teaching topics included: research and statistical methods; sociological
theory; structuralism; post-structuralism; sociology of time; sociology
of space; sociology of leisure; and feminism.
Selected others
Lecturer - Sociology/Psychology/Philosophy
Access to Higher Education Course Kingston Adult Education Service
1991-1993
Lectures included: Foucault on sexuality; criminology; Sartre's existentialism;
post-structuralism; structuralism; sociological theory; and research
and statistical methods.
Psychology Instructor
Surrey College 1989-1992
Courses taught: General Psychology (research and statistical methods;
social psychology; developmental psychology; psychological perspectives;
cognitive psychology; abnormal psychology; and bio-psychology).
Psychology Instructor (part-time)
Ashbourne College 1996-1997
Courses taught: As above.
Psychology Instructor (part-time)
Bayles College 1996-1997
Courses taught: As above.
Psychology Instructor
Campbell Harris College 1995-1999
Courses taught: As above.
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Internet and Computing
This section is further sub-divided into the areas below. Just
click on the link to access the relevant information.
If you're interested in an overview, here's a list of some of the programming
languages and software applications that I have utilised in a professional
context:
Perl/CGI; Borland Delphi; PHP; MySQL; Javascript; HTML 4.0 (DHTML);
Flash; MS Word; MS Access; MS Excel; MS Outlook; Dreamweaver; Macromedia
Fireworks; MS Frontpage; Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Pagemaker; Cakewalk;
Linux (Mandrake 7.2); Goldwave; Multimedia Builder; and Swish.
And here are the URLs of some of the web sites that I maintain:
- The Philosophers' Magazine Online (Editor/Webmaster)
- The Royal Institute of Philosophy (Editor/Webmaster)
- Campbell Harris College (Webmaster)
- The Global Careers-Work Café (Webmaster)
Work Experience - Web site development
I first started designing web sites in early 1994, in the days before
coloured backgrounds and when many people were still using text browsers
to access the world wide web (e.g., the Lynx browser)!
None of the web sites I developed back then still exist today. I
hope this is indicative of the speed of change of all things internet,
rather than any deficiencies in my design skills! So what you see below
is a list of the sites that I have developed (professionally - I've
left out one or two that I've set up for friends, etc) since 1997. If
I provide the link, it means either that I still have control over the
site or that the design is still recognisably mine (nb. only TPM Online
is truly my design - the other designs all reflect the desires of the
client).
Of these, by far the most significant (as an indication of my design
and programming skills, and my ability to produce a popular and successful
web site) is The Philosophers' Magazine Online. Here's some information
about the web site:
- Nearly 10,000 unique visitors a week
- High media profile (e.g., it has been featured or led to features
in BBC Television, BBC Radio [the Today programme], The Guardian (on
three or four different occasions), The Daily Telegraph, Smart Computing,
Sunday Express, Lingua Franca, The Chronicle of Higher Education, etc.)
- A series of interactive activities, one of which, The
Philosophical Health Check has been accessed some 100,000 times
in the last year
- A five figure revenue generated yearly
- Some 500 articles available in the TPM archive
Information Technology Teaching and Consulting
Although most of my I.T. work experience is in the area of web site
design, I have also done some consultancy and teaching in this area.
Teaching
I taught Information Technology at:
- Campbell Harris College (1997 - 1999)
- Academy Tutors (1998 - 1999)
Consultancy
I was a freelance I.T. consultant for Smith Turner Associates (a quantity
surveying company) between 1997 and 1998 (duties included: maintaining
a network; ensuring proper back-up facilities; securing against any
possible effects of the "Millennium Bug"; installing internet facilities;
etc).
Programming
I mainly program in Perl/CGI and Borland Delphi.
Some examples of my Perl programs:
Delphi programs include:
Database Programming
I use a combination of PHP and MySQL for database solutions.
Here are some examples:
Applications
Web Site Development
I developed my first web sites using Microsoft's Frontpage program.
However, I grew frustrated with its then uncontrollable tendency to
alter carefully prepared HTML code. So I switched to Macromedia's
Dreamweaver, which I use together with a text editor for manual coding.
Graphics
I am responsible for about 90% of the graphics that appear in The
Philosophers' Magazine. Here
are some examples of my work. I do nearly all my graphics work in
Adobe Photoshop. The only exceptions are where I need to produce
an animated GIF. I will then use either Macromedia Fireworks or
Adobe Image Ready.
Multimedia
For the production of Multimedia content, I use a number of tools,
including: Multimedia Builder; Goldwave; Real Audio producer; and the
Sony DV suite. You can find examples of my work in Real Audio streaming
at TPM Radio
(see, for example, Jeff Mason's China Diaries).
DTP
The Philosophers' Magazine is put together using Adobe Pagemaker 6.5
- and this is my desk top publishing package of choice. I also
have experience with Microsoft Publisher and Serif Page Plus.
Microsoft Office
I make use of Microsoft Office extensively. I'm quite capable
of utilising the advanced functions in Excel and Access. See,
for example, this excel
file.
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Psychology
As with philosophy, I first became interested in psychology
whilst pursuing a first-year undergraduate option in the subject.
However, it was a few years later, whilst thinking about the issues
involved in the notion of political mobilisation that I really became
interested. Specifically, I started to explore the non-rational
aspects of political action and engagement. This has led to an on-going
critical engagement with rational choice theory, and more generally
with any theoretical position that reduces human choices to means-end
calculations.
In line with this engagement, my main areas of interest in psychology
lie in the realms of social psychology and evolutionary psychology.
This has been reflected in much of the work that I have done with
The Philosophers' Magazine. See, for example, my interviews with
Richard
Dawkins and Helena
Cronin, and the online implementation of the
classic Wason experiment that I put together.
Teaching
I have set up and taught on psychology programmes at a number of colleges:
- Surrey College, Guildford, UK (1989-1992)
- Campbell Harris College, Kensington,UK (1995-1999)
- Bayles College (1996-1997)
- Ashbourne College (1996-1997)
Applied Psychology
Work Experience I have spent about 18 months of my working life in
"social-work" type employment. Between January and August 1986,
I was a "house parent" in a home for children with learning and emotional
difficulities. I spent six months in 1988 working as a "senior
house parent" in another children's home - this time for children with
severe learning difficulties. And between October 1993 and April
1994, I worked as a nursing "team assistant" on an acute medical ward
in a hospital near London, UK.
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Philosophy
Background
My interest in philosophy began with a first-year undergraduate unit
at Southampton University (UK).
I remember being thoroughly bemused by Wittgenstein's private language
arguments! I became more seriously engaged with philosophical
ideas during the course of a Sociology masters degree at The London
School of Economics. I specialised in sociological theory and
political sociology, both of which required a thorough grounding in
European social thought (i.e., Hegel, Marx, Weber, Gadamer, Habermas,
Adorno, etc).
My PhD thesis - titled Political mobilisation and the question
of subjectivity - adopted a meta-theoretical position that was
predicated upon a philosophical idealism. This required an engagement
with thinkers such as Brentano, James, Husserl, Sartre and Schutz.
The Philosophers' Magazine
My interest in philosophical ideas was a major factor in my decision
to go into partnership to launch The Philosophers' Magazine.
In the years since 1997, I have written on:
- philosophy and the internet
- philosophical counselling
- Darwinism
- technology
- post-analytic philosophy
- rationality,gender and religion
- happiness
- popularisation
TPM makes extensive use of the interview format. Amongst the
philosophers and scientists I have interviewed are:
- Richard Dawkins
- Edward O. Wilson
- Helena Cronin
- Russell Stannard
- Ted Honderich
- Jonathan
- Reé Roger Scruton
BritPhil
The BritPhil project emerged out of thoughts about (a)
the philosophical utility of the interview format; and (b) the emerging
generation of British philosophers. Julian Baggini (my colleague at
TPM) and I pitched the idea of a book of interviews with young British
philosophers to the publisher Routledge. The proposal was accepted,
and the book - now finished - will appear in April 2002.
For BritPhil I interviewed: Timothy Williamson; Rae Langton; Miranda
Fricker; Simon Critchley; Aaron Ridley; Christina Howells; Keith Ansell-Pearson;
and Robin Le Poidevin. The subjects of the interviews included:
aesthetics; Sartre and Derrida; epistemology and rational authority;
vagueness; Deleuze and the transhuman condition; pornography; metaphysics;
and the analytic/continental philosophy divide.
Comments from anonymous reviewers include:
- "I think that Baggini and Stangroom have done an excellent job in
bringing their interlocutors out and honing in on what is most interesting
in their work. They are skilled interviewers. I learned
a lot from reading this."
- "This is an excellent and enlightening collection of very well done
interviews that reflects what's going on in current British philosophy....The
interviews are useful and insightful: the questions are excellent."
Publications
By far the majority of my publications are with The Philosophers' Magazine.
I'll list them at the end.
Here are the non-TPM publications:
Books
- BritPhil (co-editor with Julian Baggini), Routledge, 2002 (forthcoming)
- What Philosophers Think (co-editor with Julian Baggini), Continuum,
2003 (forthcoming)
Articles
- "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism: a review", New Humanist,
(forthcoming)
- "Merely Mortal: a review", New Humanist, Summer 2001, p. 39
- "From youthful PMs to presidents who walk tall", Nature, no. 6731,
6 May 1999, p. 14 (in Nature's "Correspondence" section)
- "In the name of philosophy", Humanity, December '98/January '99, pp.
12-14
With TPM:
Books
- The Philosopher's Snack Pack (co-editor with Julian Baggini), TPM,
1999
Articles
- "Butteflies and wheels", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 14, p.
44
- "Uncommon people", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 13, p. 56
- "A little knowledge", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 12, pp. 29-30
- "The internet", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 11, pp. 27-28
- "Central questions on the margin", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
11, p. 36
- "Interview with Helena Cronin", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
11, pp. 46-48
- "Evolutionary explanations", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 10,
pp. 28-29
- "Interview with Russell Stannard", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
10, pp. 43-45
- "Shifting Belief", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 9, pp. 11-12
- "Thought and Thinker", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 9, pp. 28-29
- "The Perils of Popularisation", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
8, pp. 24-25
- "Interview with Edward O Wilson", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
8, pp. 43-45
- "Interview with Jonathan Reé", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 8,
46-48
- "The Third Way", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 7, pp. 25-26
- "The Future of Reference", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 6, pp.
14-15
- "Interview with Ted Honderich", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
6, pp. 43-45
- "Interview with Richard Dawkins", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue
6, pp. 40-42
- "Course or Cult?", The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 4, pp. 10-11
- "Minds and Brains: interview with Ted Honderich", The Philosophers'
Magazine, Issue 4, pp. 39-42
- "The Case Against Philosophical Counselling", The Philosophers' Magazine,
Issue 3, pp. 48-49
- "Sophie's World on CD-Rom: a review", The Philosophers' Magazine,
Issue 1, p. 58
Note: These articles are all available in the TPM Online
archive
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