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Professor Anthony Heath FBA

Social inequality, ethnicity, social cohesion, social class
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1992
Honours
CBE
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/anthony-heath/

Current post

Director, Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College

Past appointments

Institute for Social Change, Manchester Professor of Sociology

2012 -

University of Oxford Professor of Sociology

2001 -

University of Oxford Professor of Sociology

1999 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

1987 - 1999

University of Oxford University Lecturer and Fellow of Jesus College

1970 - 1987

Top picks

How ethnic minorities are still discriminated against in the UK job market

Publications

Ireland North and South: perspectives from social science (_PBA_ 98, 1999)

Origins and destinations 1980

Educational standards (_PBA_ 102, 2000)

How Britain votes 1985

The rise of New Labour 2001

How ethnic minorities are still discriminated against in the UK job market

22 Jan 2019 Professor Anthony Heath FBA

Research led by Anthony Heath FBA explores whether a series of legislative acts over the past five decades has been effective in preventing racial discrimination in the UK labour market.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dr Wolfgang Streeck FBA

Comparative Political Economy; crisis and conflict in contemporary capitalism; European politics

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Professor Stephen Ball FBA

Sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities.

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Professor Bea Cantillon FBA

Welfare states, social security and inequality in the rich world, with a special focus on the impact of national and European social policies on poverty and social exclusion

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