Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Elected 2000

Fellow type: International Fellow
Year elected: 2000
Honours: Honorary Senator, University of Tübingen
Sections: Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/de/mitarbeiter/karl-ulrich-mayer

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

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Professor Julian Birkinshaw FBA

The strategy & structure of large multinational corporations, & in particular the processes of innovation & entrepreneurship that facilitate their adaption to changing economic circumstances.

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA

Social security policy; poverty and living standards; child well-being; and comparative social policy

Professor Harry Collins FBA

Sociology & philospophy of knowledge, expertise & science; tacit knowledge; sociology of scientific knowledge; artificial intelligence; gravitational-wave detection since 1970; imitation Game for measuring expertise; science & the good society

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Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Julian Birkinshaw FBA

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA

Professor Harry Collins FBA

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Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Julian Birkinshaw FBA

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA

Professor Harry Collins FBA

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