Dr Christopher Fear

Christopher Fear was born in Somerset, England, schooled at Corsham (1996–2003), and read Philosophy and Politics with European Study (German) at the University of Exeter. He spent his Erasmus year abroad (2006–07) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he read Skandinavistik (Scandinavian Studies), and graduated with a First Class BA with Honours in 2008; and again in 2009 with a MA with Distinction in the History of Political Thought. In 2009 he obtained full funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for PhD research under the supervision of Iain Hampsher-Monk and Edward Skidelsky. He spent the autumn of 2010 at the Herzog-August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel. His doctoral thesis, Old Problems Re-opened: R. G. Collingwood and the History of Ideas, was accepted without corrections in September 2013.

In September 2017, after a number of years teaching A level Philosophy and Ethics at Okehampton College, Dr Fear took up his present Lecturer post in the School of Politics at the University of Hull. He now lives in Hull with his wife and children.