 He spent two years in Australia and New Zealand before becoming the warden at a Tyneside community center managed by the Tyneside Council of Social Services when the worst of the Great Depression was over.In 1938, he joined the Education Department of the Borough of Southampton as the Secretary of Youth Services and served in the position through World War II.In 1945, he was the head of the London School of Economics's department involved in colonial studies, also known as the Colonial Social Science Certificate Course that was previously headed by Audrey Richards.