He resumed his post-graduate studies from where he left off after his five years of service in teaching schoolchildren and completed his Master's degree in the field of Industrial relations at Warwick School.
His Doctor of Philosophy focused immensely on discrimination against women, which he innovatively connected through the usage of economic sense with sociological methods by applying his paradigm shift approach to tackle societal injustices and challenges.
He quickly rose to prominence as the head of a large research group and up until his untimely demise, he served as a key figure playing a pivotal and instrumental role in policy evaluations in the field of labour market disadvantage.
[3] His most important early contribution in his field of work came in the form of a research paper titled Value for Money on the costs and benefits of distributing equal rights for part-time workers, which he, in fact, conjured up on a significantly crucial small-budget fund granted by the Trades Union Congress.
[5] Sri Lanka was their usual winter holiday location, and on a fateful day, he and his family visited the country coinciding with the unprecedented 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami during the latter part of December.