Professor Jonathan Gershuny FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology in the Social Research Institute, UCL, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford. He is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Time Use Research (2014-2024) also funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council and by the US National Institutes of Health. He was previously a Statutory Professor of Sociology and Head of the Oxford University’s Sociology Department. Appointed CBE 2017, he won the Silver Medal of the Market Research Society in 1986, and gave the first Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in 1999. His 1977 doctorate from the University of Sussex was in History and Social Studies of Science, and he spent the first ten years of his academic life as a Fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex. In 1984, aged 34, he was appointed to a professorship at University of Bath, becoming Head of the School of Social Sciences, before moving to Oxford in 1990. He was the Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, and the Principal Investigator of the British Household Panel Study from 1993 to 2006, and continues as Principal Investigator of the Multinational Time Use Study.
Current post
Social Research Institute, University College London Professor of Economic Sociology
Past appointments
Nuffield College, Oxford Senior Research Fellow
2011 - 2019
University of Oxford Professor of Economic Sociology
2006 - 2019
University of Essex Professor of Sociology
1993 - 2006
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex Director
1993 - 2006
Nuffield College, Oxford Faculty Fellow
1990 - 1993
University of Bath Professor of Sociology
1984 - 1990
School for Global Studies, University of Sussex Fellow
1974 - 1984
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Senior Fellow
1974 - 1984
Department of Transport Technology, Loughborough University Research Officer
1972 - 1974
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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Public opinion and political behaviour; public attitudes to science and technology; intergenerational social mobility; survey methodology
Professor Jennifer Ozga FBA
The governing of education in Europe and in the constituent nations of the UK, comparative work on education policy making, with a focus on data, knowledge and elites
Professor Agnès Van Zanten FBA
Sociology of education; educational inequality; elite education; parental educational strategies; school choice; school segregation; access to higher education; educational policy; comparative and ethnographic research
