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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
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
http://scholar.harvard.edu/sampson/

Current post

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

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Professor Susan Golombok FBA

Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy

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Professor Bea Cantillon FBA

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Professor Kelvyn Jones FBA

Quantitative social science methodology; geography of health; social geography

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