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Thomas is currently working on a WRoCAH funded PhD at the University of 91ֱ��. This is titled: ‘Can Confucianism’s Relational and Rooted Picture of the Self Help Us Understand the Values of Modern National (Right-Wing) Populist Voters in the UK and US?’. Before this he studied for the MA in Philosophy, at the same department in the
University of 91ֱ��. Here he worked on four essays that reflect his research interests. These were titled: ‘Is Credentialism a Problem That Confucianism Can Help Us Understand and Address?’, ‘Is Confucianism Compatible with a Laclauian Conception of Democracy?’, ‘Should Economics Increase the Value it Puts on Place?’, and ‘Should a Relational Self That Helps Others Who Are Part of Their Self Identity Be Considered Altruistic and Does This Mean We Should Redefine Altruism?’. He also worked on a dissertation entitled ‘Has the Emergence of a WEIRD Independent Self-Construal Played a Significant Role in the Emergence of National Populism?’. Even longer ago he studied for a BA in Politics and Economics at the University of Nottingham. His undergraduate dissertation here was entitled ‘Can Classical Confucianism Provide Us with a Virtue Ethics Synthesisable with Moral Foundations Theory?’ He in interested in a number of broad areas of philosophy beyond his narrower research focus, including East Asian Philosophy (primarily Confucianism but also Daoism and Buddhism), Political Philosophy, Ethics and Identity (especially relational/social identity).