Professor Mary Daly FBA

Comparative welfare state studies; social policies and gender inequality; theorisation and measurement of contemporary poverty; family policies within a comparative perspective; social care in contemporary states and societies; European Union social policies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Oxford; Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Linda Woodhead FBA

Religion, values and culture in modern and contemporary societies; the decline of institutional churches and the rise and persistence of alternatives

Professor Linda Woodhead

Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt FBA

Complexity and power theories as well as theories of individual and group cognition related to heuristics, analogies, and integrative thinking. Strategy as 'simple rules', strategic interaction in novel markets and ecosystems, strategy making by boards

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Professor Sylvia Walby FBA

Redeveloping the concept and theory of society in a global era, using complex systems analysis, integrating both violence as an institutional domain and gender as a regime of inequality.

Professor Sylvia Walby

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