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Professor of British Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
Peter Sloman is Professor of British Politics at POLIS. His research focusses on political ideas, public policy, and electoral politics in modern Britain. His first book, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 (Oxford, 2015) explored how British Liberals engaged with economic thought in the era of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. His second book, Transfer State (Oxford, 2019), examined how changing attitudes to work and social welfare have shaped the development of Universal Credit and the campaign for a universal basic income.
Together with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Pedro Ramos Pinto, he has co-edited a recent essay collection on Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Peter has also published articles in a wide range of history and political science journals. He is currently working on the politics of tax and spending in the UK and other Westminster democracies.
Peter was Chair of the Management Committee for Cambridge's History and Politics Tripos between 2016 and 2020, and is now the Director of Postgraduate Education in POLIS.
He was awarded the University's Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2021, and is a Fellow and Director of Studies for History and Politics students (and some HSPS students) at Churchill College. Before arriving in Cambridge in 2015, he was a junior research fellow at New College, Oxford.
