British Social Attitudes (Gower, 1989). Essay on the Future for Dalits on Indian caste politics (published by Ambedkar Society Journal 1998). Founder and Editor, CEU Gazette (1991–94). The Missing Generation - major investigation into the need for new blood in higher education (which prompted policy changes) – Times Higher Education Supplement (1982). Co-presenter/writer of two-hour "special" on the drugs crisis for London Weekend Television (1985). Pulling Through - analysis of British social science research, in Government and Social Research (ed. M. Bulmer, Cambridge University Press, 1985). Recasting Indian Politics – Essays on Indian Politics and Reform (editor and contributor) (forthcoming Macmillan Palgrave) (2012). Should Mother Teresa accept money from the Mafia?, essay on the ethics of giving in Integrity (ed. Alan Montefiore and David Vines - Routledge, 1998) The Social Sciences in Crisis - a series of five full page articles in the Times Higher Education Supplement (1983). Career and public activities Journalism From the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, Flather worked as a journalist, first as a freelancer and film, art and book reviewer and later for a number of established regional, national, and international newspapers and media houses. Inter alia, he worked as reporter, correspondent, and editor on media such as the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, Yorkshire TV, BBC Television News, The Times, The Sunday Times, and Times Higher Education, where he worked as feature writer and correspondent, including foreign coverage, specialising in research and social sciences. In 1989, he served as deputy-editor on the New Statesman & Society magazine, commissioning, planning, editing, and writing editorials. Flather served as press fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge in 1984. Public Service From 1986 to 1990, he was an elected member (regional councillor) of the Inner London Education Authority, chairing the Further and Higher Education sub-committee, with an annual budget of some £340 million. During his time as councillor, Flather also held membership posts at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities and the London Boroughs Association. He was elected to many national education bodies and from 1989 to 1993, he was member of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, chairing its public affairs committee until 1991. He has served as expert advisor 1995–6 to the European Commission for its first multi-million Europe-India programme in 1997. Academe After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, Flather worked variously for the BBC, Times Newspapers, the New Statesman among other journals, before being elected as