Professor Fiona Williams FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Fiona Williams is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds. Her roles at Leeds included Director of the ESRC CAVA Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare.
Fiona is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the RSA. In 2004 Fiona was awarded an OBE for services to social policy.
Fiona’s publications have for many years been central to developing critical approaches to social policy. Her latest book Social Policy. A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Polity, 2021) brings the global crises of care, climate change, and racialized borders to bear on an understanding of social policy.
Until 2014 Fiona was co-editor of Social Politics, International Studies in Gender, State and Society, and is now one of its trustees. Fiona is the Social Sciences editor for the Journal of the British Academy.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds
Research Associate, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford
Honorary Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mike Savage FBA
Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.
Professor Ewan Ferlie FBA
Public management, both in the UK and internationally, with special reference to the health care and higher education sectors and focussing on narratives of public management reform
Professor Sari Hanafi FBA
The sociology of religion; connection of moral philosophy to the social sciences; the sociology of (forced) migration applied to the Palestinian refugees; politics of scientific research
