Professor Jane Millar FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Jane Millar is Professor Emerita Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. Her research interests include the design, implementation and impact of social policy and comparative research on family policy, social security and employment policy, with particular reference to gender and changing family patterns. Her recent research examines the impact of Universal Credit on couples, focusing on labour market and family budgeting. She was awarded an OBE in June 2001 for 'services to social policy research and teaching'. She is a former chair of the Social Policy Association, and was chair of the Social Sciences Main Panel C for the Research Excellence Framework, 2021.
Current post
Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath
Publications
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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.
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Comparative and historical sociology: the history of power in human societies; fascism and ethnic cleansing
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