Perri 6

Perri 6

Perri 6 is a noted British social scientist. He changed his name from David Ashworth to Perri 6 in 1983, stating that he was amused by the notion of "6, P" appearing in academic papers.cite book
last=Wheen
first=Francis
title=How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
date=2004
isbn=0-00-714097-5
location=London
publisher=Harper Perennial]

6 worked for Demos, a centre-left think tank with close ties to New Labour in the 1990s. He is currently Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University's School of Social Sciences.cite web
url=http://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/school_research/social/staff/16641.html
title=Perri 6's homepage
publisher=Nottingham Trent University
accessdate=2008-05-09] Much of 6's recent research is based on the cultural theory of risk, which he refers to as "neo-Durkheimian institutional theory".

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