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 Stephen Ball FBA
Sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities.
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby FBA
Risk and uncertainty; social policy and state welfare, especially theoretical and normative approaches; cross-national comparative work in Europe and East Asia; public attitudes to inequality, social justice and social policy
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra FBA
Historical sociology and modernity; social theory, epistemology, and the intersection of postcolonial and decolonial studies; the political economy of race and colonialism
