Professor Richard Breen FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1999
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Richard Breen is Professor of Sociology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He was previously William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department, at Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 1998), a Member of Academia Europaea (2002), and a Fellow the European Academy of Sociology (2015). His research interests are social stratification and inequality, the application of formal models in the social sciences, and quantitative methods.
Current post
Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
Past appointments
Nuffield College University of Oxford Professor of Sociology and Fellow
2015 -
Yale University Professor of Sociology
2007 -
Yale University Professor, Sociology Department
2007 -
Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow
2001 - 2006
European University Institute, Florence Professor of Sociology
1997 - 2001
Queen's University Belfast Professor of Sociology
1991 - 1997
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Peter W. F. Smith FBA
Social statistics; statistical methodology, methods for analysing administrative data and paradata, Bayesian population forecasts, modelling longitudinal data; applying sophisticated statistical methods to problems in demography, medicine and health sciences
Professor Robert Sampson FBA
Urban inequality and the social structure of contemporary cities, including the study of neighbourhood effects; stability and change in crime over the life course
Professor Sara Arber FBA
Gender and ageing, including care-giving, older men, pensions; health inequalities, including women's health, social capital, cross-national comparisons; sociology of sleep, research on women, couples and ageing
