Ricardo Blaug

Dr Ricardo Blaug is a volunteer support worker for asylum seekers in the UK, a writer and postgraduate thesis supervisor. A recovering academic with over forty articles and books on the psychological politics of institutional life, he is also an experienced and qualified Psychiatric Social Worker. He was Associate Professor (Reader) in Democracy and Political Philosophy at the Universities of Leeds and Westminster, where he was an award-winning teacher, and has worked as an emergency psychiatric clinician, mental health service manager and political philosopher in the UK, the US and the Netherlands. Skills include mental health first aid, mending things, talking and emergency medicine.