Paul Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield. Previously, Paul was Youth Campaigns Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in the north of England, and worked for a national voluntary sector youth work organisation. His 2011 book Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion drew on research from Oldham, Greater Manchester to analyse government policy approaches to ethnic cohesion and integration.
