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
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Professor Michael Mann FBA
Comparative and historical sociology: the history of power in human societies; fascism and ethnic cleansing
Professor Susie Scott FBA
The micro-sociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman's dramaturgy, applied to questions of self-identity, emotions, mental health and everyday life. Originator of the sociology of shyness and sociology of nothing
Professor Nasar Meer FBA
The contemporary study of political participation, multi-level approaches to anti-discrimination, migration and asylum policies, public and media representation, and the ways in which collective membership is conceived and operationalised.
