• Hochuli

  Alex Hochuli

  PhD Student in Sociology

  University of Kent at Canterbury
  

  Alex is researching consumerism and post-material values in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Alex was previously Institute of Ideas web editor and research assistant and is an organiser of the Battle of Ideas, previously producing debates on evolution, religion, new technologies, immigration and population at the festival. In early 2008, Alex co-produced the IoI & Bishopsgate Institute Secularism 2008 Series. Alex is a co-founder and organiser of the IoI Current Affairs Forum, established to bring together students, young professionals and others interested in investigating what politics means today. Alex occasionally writes articles for spiked and reviews for Culture Wars and was on the editorial team of the Battles in Print 2007. Alex co-edited the Manifesto Club’s freedom blog, Speaking our mind, and was a regular guest on news discussion programme Up Front on internet TV channel 18 Doughty Street. He also occasionally helps to write Topic Guides for the Debating Matters Competition.  Alex has an MA in European Studies from King’s College London and a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics.

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