Adam is research and policy officer at the National Union of Students. At NUS, Adam has been working closely on the issues of postgraduate funding and ran the costing for the PGT funding model launched by NUS last week.

Before joining NUS, Adam was at the University of Essex where he was completing a PhD on the effects of New Labour’s education policy on community cohesion. He also taught political theory at Essex. Adam has had several other positions as a researcher, including a role in the influential United Nations Peacekeeping and Governance project funded by the Folke Institute in Sweden.