Professor Alan Walker FBA
Social policy & social gerontology including polictical economy, comparitive research in Europe & East Asia, & the theory & application of social quality
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Honours
- CBE
- Subjects
- Sociology
Current post
Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology,
Past appointments
The University of Sheffield Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology
1970 -
The University of Sheffield Director of MOPACT
1970 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Mann FBA
Comparative and historical sociology: the history of power in human societies; fascism and ethnic cleansing
Professor Lydia Morris FBA
The conceptualisation and empirical analysis of citizen's rights, migrant's rights and human rights, their mutual interconnections and their appropriation as a tool of governance.
Professor Ian Gough FBA
Meeting human needs within planetary boundaries; from social policy to eco-social policy; from efficiency to sufficiency; synthesising wellbeing, equality and sustainability; distinguishing excessive consumption from necessities and basic services.
