Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver by Thomas Bottomore, after his wife was denied a US visa for his original plan to study at the University of Wisconsin. At SFU, he completed an MA thesis on the recruitment of Canadian scientists. Both he and Bottomore resigned from SFU in 1967 during a period of intense conflict within the university over student participation in governance..

Returning to Britain in 1968, he was recruited as a lecturer