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Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2000
Honours
Honorary Senator, University of Tübingen
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/de/mitarbeiter/karl-ulrich-mayer

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Timothy Dyson FBA

Demography, epidemiology and health; population studies; South Asia; India

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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 Mike Power FBA

Accounting, auditing and organisations; sociology of quantification and valuation; the practice of regulation and risk management; risk cultures and corporate governance

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