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Professor Sir Ian Diamond FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2005
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/about-us/national-statistician/

Current post

Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen

Past appointments

Other Institutions Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council

2003 -

Other Institutions Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council

2003 - 2010

University of Southampton Dean of Social Sciences; Deputy Vice-Chancellor

1980 - 2002

Six Fellows of the British Academy make the case for the importance of the humanities and social sciences

20 Nov 2018

As part of the #howhumanities and #howsocialscience series, six fellows highlight the importance of these disciplines.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA

Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science

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Professor Jennifer Mason FBA

Sociology of personal and everyday life; affinities, kinship, relationalities, connectedness, personal relationships; ecological sociology and socio-atmospherics; qualitative, creative and mixed methodologies, including ‘facet methodology’

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Professor Robert Sampson FBA

Urban inequality and the social structure of contemporary cities, including the study of neighbourhood effects; stability and change in crime over the life course

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