Jerry Johnson

Jerry began researching for a PhD in January 2003 jointly supervised by the Department of Politics and CCSR. Having secured an ESRC quota award with CCSR, Jerry is, from October 2004 an ESRC funded 1+3 PhD student working with Prof. Ed Fieldhouse, Director of CCSR, and Dr. Andrew Russell in Politics. He took the MSc in Survey Research Methods and Statistics before moving back to PhD research from October 2005. Meanwhile, Jerry is a graduate teaching assistant in CCSR and Politics and also teaches at The University of Northampton.

I have had a stroke (with aphasia) in May 2006.

At the age of six years, I was diagnosed with a congenital heart murmur which meant that I would need to be monitored regularly. It was during one of the routine annual checks of my heart, that it was discovered that my heart condition was worsening and during a consultation at the John Radcliffe hospital. I was given the option of having a metal valve or a pig’s valve and in November 1995 I underwent an o