Professor Ray Pahl FBA

Empirical studies on contemporary communities, focusing on all forms of work, inequality and social polarisation; studies on managers and directors, 'success' and the social importance of friendship
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2008
Year of birth
1935
Year of death
2011
Honours
FBA

Current post

Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex; Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Kent

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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

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Professor Elizabeth Shove FBA

Social theories of practice; sociology of energy and mobility; infrastructures, technologies and everyday life; time and flexibility

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Professor José María Maravall FBA

Political sociology; comparative politics; empirical democratic theory

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