Professor Andrew Ryder FRSA from 1990 to 2001 worked as a teacher in state schools and with the British Council and taught Gypsy/Roma children in the UK, Hungary and Portugal. From 2002 until 2006, Andrew was the policy officer for the Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition (GTLRC), which lobbied for more Traveller sites and greater social inclusion for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. The GTLRC was awarded the Liberty Human Rights Award in 2004.

Andrew was the researcher to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers from 2002 – 2007. Between 2006 and 2009 Andrew was the National Policy Officer for the Traveller Movement. Andrew is currently an Associate Professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

Andrew’s interests focus on:

• Gypsies Roma Travellers/marginalised groups
• Social justice
• Community groups/social movements and glocalisation
• Participatory action research
• Academic Freedom
• Populism and its threat to democracy

I have published extensively on these interests

Recent Book Publications:

Monographs

Ryder, A (2022) The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A case study in authoritarianism, culture war and Resistance, Berlin: De Gruyter Press

https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110749816/html?lang=en

Ryder, A (2020) Britain and Europe at a crossroads: The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation, Bristol: Policy Press

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/britain-and-europe-at-a-crossroads

Ryder, A (2017) 'Sites of Resistance: Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the Community, School and Academy', Trentham Press IOE (Institute of Education, London)

https://www.ucl-ioe-press.com/books/social-justice-equality-and-human-rights/sites-of-resistance/

Books edited:

Ryder, A. Taba, M. Trehan, N eds (2021) Romani Communities and Transformative: A New Social Europe, Bristol: Policy Press

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/romani-communities-and-transformative-change

Ryder, A. Cemlyn, S. Acton, T (2014) Hearing the Voice of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers: Inclusive Community Development, Bristol: Policy Press

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/hearing-the-voices-of-gypsy-roma-and-traveller-communities

Richardson, J. and Ryder, A. (2012) ‘Gypsies and Travellers: Accommodation, Empowerment and Inclusion in British Society’, Bristol: Policy Press Book

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/gypsies-and-travellers