He is also a Fellow and a Director of Studies for Politics at Trinity College, where he also serves as the Director of Admissions and the Fellow for Ethnic Diversity.
He is a winner of the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for teaching, and he runs the RA Butler Essay Prize for school students interested in thinking, writing and arguing about politics.
His research interests are in the politics of the Middle East. Thematically, his work is on political argument and on the political economy of conflict. He chairs the Fieldwork & Research programme of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, of which he is a Trustee.
