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

Current post

Professor of Education Policy, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

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

1970 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jane Lewis FBA

Social policy and administration; gender and sexuality studies; social History

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Professor Esther Duflo FBA

The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments

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Professor Per-Olof Wikström FBA

Criminology: Situational Action Theory, crime as moral actions, social ecology of crime, crime & human development, knowledge-based crime prevention policy.

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