Professor Gordon Marshall FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2000
- Website
- http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk
Summary
Professor Gordon Marshall has been Director of the Leverhulme Trust since 2011. He has previously been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, and Official Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford. Before joining Nuffield College he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, and a visiting Professor at several European universities. His main fields of research include social exclusion, equality of opportunity, distributive justice and the culture of economic enterprise, and he has written widely on these topics. Between 2007 and 2011 he was also Chairman of the Higher Education Statistics Agency. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000, of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 2001, and awarded a CBE in 2003 for his services to economic and social science.
Last post
Director, The Leverhulme Trust
Past appointments
Leverhulme Trust Director
2011 -
University College London Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading
2002 - 2011
Other Institutions Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
2000 - 2002
Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow
1993 - 2000
University of Bath Professor
1990 - 1993
University of Essex Lecturer
1978 - 1990
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mary Daly FBA
Comparative welfare state studies; social policies and gender inequality; theorisation and measurement of contemporary poverty; family policies within a comparative perspective; social care in contemporary states and societies; European Union social policies
Professor Peter Buckley FBA
International Business, The Theory of the Multinational Enterprise, Strategy of Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment with special reference to Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets (India and China)
Professor Patricia Thane FBA
History, Social History, Women's History, Political History, Economic History, History of Britain.
