- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology in the Social Research Institute, UCL, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford. He is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Time Use Research (2014-2024) also funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council and by the US National Institutes of Health. He was previously a Statutory Professor of Sociology and Head of the Oxford University’s Sociology Department. Appointed CBE 2017, he won the Silver Medal of the Market Research Society in 1986, and gave the first Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in 1999. His 1977 doctorate from the University of Sussex was in History and Social Studies of Science, and he spent the first ten years of his academic life as a Fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex. In 1984, aged 34, he was appointed to a professorship at University of Bath, becoming Head of the School of Social Sciences, before moving to Oxford in 1990. He was the Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, and the Principal Investigator of the British Household Panel Study from 1993 to 2006, and continues as Principal Investigator of the Multinational Time Use Study.
Current post
Social Research Institute, University College London Professor of Economic Sociology
Past appointments
Nuffield College, Oxford Senior Research Fellow
2011 - 2019
University of Oxford Professor of Economic Sociology
2006 - 2019
University of Essex Professor of Sociology
1993 - 2006
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Director
1993 - 2006
Nuffield College, Oxford Faculty Fellow
1990 - 1993
University of Bath Professor of Sociology
1984 - 1990
School for Global Studies, University of Sussex Fellow
1974 - 1984
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Senior Fellow
1974 - 1984
Department of Transport Technology, Loughborough University Research Officer
1972 - 1974
Publications
What We Really Do All Day
Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan - Published in 2019 by Pelican
Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society
Jonathan Gershuny - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press
Social Innovation and the Division of Labour
Jonathan Gershuny - Published in 1984 by Oxford University Press
After Industrial Society?: Emerging Self-service Economy
Jonathan Gershuny - Published in 1977 by Macmillan
National Utility: Measuring the Enjoyment of Activities
Jonathan Gershuny - Published in 2013 by European Sociological Review
Vol 29
Too Many Zeros: A Method for Estimating Long-Term Time-Use from Short Diaries
Jonathan Gershuny - Published in 2012 by Annals of Economics and Statistics
Issue 105-106
Historical Changes in the Household Division of Labor
Jonathan Gershuny and John P. Robinson - Published in 1988 by Demography
Vol 25
