He is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University.
[4] Strickland was awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship in 2017 from The British Academy for work on the original manuscript of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s 1686 Examen religionis Christianae (Examination of the Christian Religion).
[5] Later, the Gerda Henkel Foundation [de; cs; es] awarded him a Forschungsstipendium (research scholarship); this was to support Strickland’s work with American computer scientist Harry Lewis in writing Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic, which was published in November 2022.
It is one of his important contributions to the history of binary and other non-decimal number systems, which include identifying what led Thomas Harriot and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz each to his own independent invention of binary numeration,[7][8] the role of Leibniz’s invention in the birth of modern computing, and elements in the history of base-16 numeration.
[9] Strickland has also become known for his work identifying racially-motivated negationism in the formation of the Western philosophical canon[10] and has called for the recuperative broadening of the Western philosophical curriculum.