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Paul Shackley
Biographical Details
Born,
Workington, Cumberland (now Cumbria), North West England, 1st
January, 1949.
Lived in
Cumberland (Whitehaven and Penrith), Kent (Sevenoaks), Ireland (Dublin) and
Lancashire (Morecambe and Lancaster).
Attended
primary schools in Penrith and Scotland and secondary school in the Republic of
Ireland.
BA, first
class, Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin,1973.
PhD,
Religious Studies, Lancaster University,1976.
Postgraduate
Certificate of Education, Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan
University),1982.
Diploma in
Careers Guidance, Kent College for the Careers Service,1989.
Personal
Advisers’ Diploma, Nottingham Trent University, 2004.
Jobs:
factory worker, unskilled labourer, temporary post man, Retail Assistant,
furniture remover, admin worker, School Teacher, part-time Philosophy Tutor,
Careers Adviser, others miscellaneous, employed by Lancashire Young People's
Service from 1st April, 2007.
Married, one
daughter, one granddaughter.
Member of:
Unison (public sector trade union); Socialist Workers Party; Lancaster Unity (an
anti-fascist campaigning group); Lancaster Serene Reflection Meditation Group (Soto Zen); Bentham Grammar School Association; Lune Pagans Moot pagan network; science fiction
and comics fan groups.
Philosophy:
dialectical materialism.
Politics:
unorthodox Trotskyism.
Inner
practice: zazen.
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