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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Education, Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics , Education
Website
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_policy/lindsay_paterson

Current post

Professor of Education Policy, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh Professor of Education Policy

1970 -

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