Dr Nick Axten hopes to publish his research, which builds on some of the ideas he worked on in the US more than five decades ago
Dr Nick Axten, 76, who lives inHe received a scholarship to study a PhD in mathematical sociology at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA in 1970 - but, five years later, he returned to the UK with the PhD unfinished.
On Tuesday, the University of Bristol made him a Doctor of Philosophy, with his wife Claire and granddaughter Freya, 11, in attendance.Dr Nick Axten at the start of his PhD studies, and in his cap and gown finally graduating after over 50 years Dr Axten hopes to publish his research, which builds on some of the ideas he worked on in the US more than five decades ago.
His work involves a new theory for understanding human behaviour based on people's values, which he thinks could change how behavioural psychology is viewed."Some problems are so great it takes the best part of a lifetime to get your head around them. They need a long hard think. This one has taken me 50 years."Things have changed since his undergraduate days in Leeds in 1967.
"It was still flower power and there was a revolutionary feel. It was the time of the Vietnam War, Paris, Prague and student sit-ins," he recalled.
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