Ian Bache joined the Department as Lecturer in 1999 and became Senior Lecturer in 2003, Reader in 2006 and Professor in 2009. He was University Director of Learning and Teaching for Internationalisation 2011-2014. Ian had a number of jobs before taking his first degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies at the University of Leeds, which included work experience in the House of Commons and the US Congress. After his first degree he worked for the Coalfield Communities Campaign/ European Action for Mining Communities before studying for an MA in International Studies and PhD on the Politics of EU Regional Policy at the University of Sheffield. He completed a part-time MEd in Teaching and Learning at the University of Sheffield in 2004 and received the Senate Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching in 2008. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) at the University of Sheffield and is co-investigator of the Community Wellbeing strand of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing launched in 2015. He was principal investigator and convenor of the ESRC seminar series on The Politics of Wellbeing 2013-15. He serves on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of international journals and has undertaken consultancy for national and international bodies. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).