Bryan R RobertsBryan R RobertsBryan R RobertsBryan R Roberts, was already present at Manchester when Peter Worsley arrived in , and worked here until as a sociologist of development and urbanization. Key works at Manchester include Cities of Peasants: the Political Economy of Urbanization in the Third World (). Now at the University of Texas, he is Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies as well as Director of The Mexican Center.

Celebrating years of Sociology at Manchester: to Peter Peter Peter Peter WorsleyWorsleyWorsleyWorsleywas appointed the first Professor of Sociology at Manchester in . He did muchto establish the field of develop-ment studies and helped to defineand popularise the concept of a ‘third world’. His books include The Trumpet Shall Sound (), The Third World (), the runaway international best-seller Introducing Sociology () (written with colleagues at Manchester -Roy Fitzhenry, Clyde Mitchell, David Morgan, Valdo Pons, Bryan Roberts, Wes Sharrock and Robin Ward), and The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development ().

David Morgan David Morgan David Morgan David Morgan joined the departmentin and is now Emeritus Professor.The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life is named in his honour to reflect the profound influence he has had in the field of family studies since the s, not least by launching the concept of ‘family practices’. Some of his best-known books include The Family, Politics and Social Theory (),Family Connections(), Acquaintances() And Rethinking Family Practices ().

James Clyde MitchellClyde MitchellClyde MitchellClyde Mitchell became Professor of Urban Sociology in Manchester in . Mitchell and his colleagues, together with John Barnes, and Elizabeth Bott, pioneered the study of social structure by tracing social networks. His key publications include Social Networks in Urban Situations(). He played a foundational role in the development of social network analysis, and his legacy at Manchester continues in the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis - named after and dedicated to him.

Colin Colin Colin Colin LaceyLaceyLaceyLaceyworked at Manchester until as a sociologist of education. While at Manchester he conducted ethnographic research published as the classic study Hightown Grammar: School as a Social System (). This argued that streaming helped create educational underachievement, arguing that working-class boys consigned to lower streams saw themselves as having been labelled failures, and so went on to develop anti-school attitudes which affected their progress.

Wes Wes Wes Wes Sharrock Sharrock Sharrock Sharrock was appointed a Lecturer in Sociology in , and his time at Manchester dates back even earlier than that, as he was a graduate student here from . He is the longest serving staff member at Manchester. He is the leading exponent of ethnomethodology (the study of the methods and practices by which society's members make sense of their world). In he won the American Sociological Association’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

Peter HalfpennyPeter HalfpennyPeter HalfpennyPeter Halfpenny joined Manchester in , and was Head of Department (-), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (-), and subsequently Head of the School of Social Sciences (-), as well as Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research (CASR) and of the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science. His research interests and publications arein the areas of philosophy and sociology of science, science policy, and charitable giving.

TeodorTeodorTeodorTeodor ShaninShaninShaninShaninwas appoint-ed Professor of Sociology in and he stayed in Manchester until . His work was very influential in the field of peasant studies, working in African Studies as well as on the informal economy and the Russian Revolution. He founded the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.

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Pete MartinPete MartinPete MartinPete Martin joined the department in , becoming Head of Sociology in . He is best known for his research on culture, especially music. He writes as a music journalist as well as an academic, and is (as far as we know) the only member of staff past or present to have gigged extensively as a jazz trumpeter.

Pete Martin (third from left) pictured with bandmates from Chameleon in .

Paul Paul Paul Paul KelemenKelemenKelemenKelemen joined the department in and is one of our longest-serving members of staff. Alongside his teaching and research, he has a longstanding engagement with international solidarity campaigns, particularly in the Horn of Africa. In he published The British left and Zionism: history of a divorce.

The urban sociologist Rosemary MellorRosemary MellorRosemary MellorRosemary Mellor

(Manchester -)

conducted research on the

inner city, social isolation

and exclusion, and representations of the

urban poor, as well as

looking at urban

professionals and middle

class mobilities. She was the author of the standard

reference work, Urban

Sociology In An Urbanised

Society ().

Hamza Hamza Hamza Hamza AlaviAlaviAlaviAlavi a banker, turned political activist, turned academic, joined the University of Manchester in . His research focused on nationality, gender, fundamentalism and the peasantry. He was one of the founders of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination in the sixties.

Alison KellyAlison KellyAlison KellyAlison Kellywas at Manchester from -, during which time she co-directed the action research project Girls into Science and Technology (GIST), focusing on the science education of girls. A passionate investigator of inequalities in society, in she moved to Stockport education authority where she pioneered the study of free school meals as an indicator of social deprivation , now used nationwide to understand school performance.

Liz StanleyLiz StanleyLiz StanleyLiz Stanley, now a Professorial Fellow at University of Edinburgh, is a leading

feminist academic. Particularly influential for her work on methodology and

epistemology, her work on feminist approaches to auto/biography focused

attention on the politics at stake in ‘writing’ a life. With Sue Wise she has

written some classic feminist texts, such as Breaking out:

feminist consciousness and feminist research () and

Georgie Porgie: sexual

harassment in everyday

life () .

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Huw Huw Huw Huw BeynonBeynonBeynonBeynonwas first a Research Fellow at Manchester in , later returning in . An industrial sociologist, Huw’sfellowship at Manchester resulted in Living with Capitalism(with Nichols, ) a classic study of working life in a large chemical complex. Huw’s books on industrial restructuring and its impact on class inequalities include Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organization (with Austrin, ), Patterns of Social Inequality (with Glavanis, ), and Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work (with Grimshaw and Rubery, ).

Miriam Miriam Miriam Miriam GlucksmannGlucksmannGlucksmannGlucksmann, Hallsworth Fellow from -, used her time at Manchester to conduct research on women's paid work and domestic labour since the s, taking Salford as her research site. Published in the book Cottons and Casuals() the research used oral history interviews and archive materials to look at women’s changing patterns of living and working.

Peter Peter Peter Peter McMylorMcMylorMcMylorMcMylor joined Sociology in . His work focuses on questions of morality, ethics and religion and how these feature in social theory, with a focus on the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. Peter wrote the first full length account of the significance of MacIntyre's work for social science in Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity ().

Cathie MarshCathie MarshCathie MarshCathie Marshheld Simon and Nuffield Fellowships at Manchester from -, becoming a lecturer in . A quantitative sociologist, her work on how to anonymisecensus records was a key factor in the UK Data Service’s decision to produce the Samples of Anonymised Records. Since this dataset has been a vital tool for researchers and policy makers. Her career was cut short by her early death, but her legacy continues in the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR).

Alan Warde was a Hallsworth Fellow (1991), before returning to Manchester in 1998. Renowned for his work on the sociology of consumption, food, and culture; and the analysis of sustainable consumption; his key books include Eating Out: social differentiation, consumption and pleasure(with Martens, 2000) and Culture, Class, Distinction (with Bennett, Savage, Silva, Gayo-Cal and Wright, 2009).

Angela Dale OBE joined Manchester Sociology in 1993. A quantitative sociologist, her research focuses on women’s employment, ethnic difference, and generational change. Key publications include Women and Social Change: Engendering Longitudinal Analysis (with Ruspini, 2002); and Analyzing Census Microdata (with Fieldhouse and Holdsworth, 2000). She founded the Centre for Census and Survey and headed the Economic and Social Data Service, Surveys (2002-2010).

Sheila Rowbotham joined the department in 1993. A prolific and influential writer with a very broad readership, her research focuses on feminist and socialist histories. Key books written at Manchester include A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the US (1997); Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties (2000); and Edward Carpenter A Life of Liberty and Love (2008).

At the coal face of Sociology…Huw Beynon during a coal mining research project .

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Fiona Devine OBE joined the department in , serving as Head of Sociology -, before becoming Head of the School of Social Sciences (-). A leading expert on social class, her publications include Class Practices: How Parents Class Practices: How Parents Class Practices: How Parents Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs ()Help Their Children Get Good Jobs ()Help Their Children Get Good Jobs ()Help Their Children Get Good Jobs (). . . . Fiona, with Mike Savage, was behind the BBC’s Great British Class Survey, one of the largest ever studies of class.

Colette FaganColette FaganColette FaganColette Fagan joined the department in , but her connection to Manchester dates back to and her PhD. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of employment and welfare systems, exploring how these shape gender inequalities.. Her research on ‘work-life balance’ has influenced the policies advocated by key international organisations including the ILO,and the EuropeanUnion.

Mike Savage joined Manchester in . Head of Department (-), he also founded the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). He has forged a distinctive approach to ‘cultural class analysis’, in key books such as Class Analysis and Social Transformation (. His work emphasises the significance of place in the formation of class identities. With Fiona Devine he collaborated on the BBC’s ‘Great British Class Survey’.

Tej Purewal joined Sociology in . She researches in the area of international South Asian studies, focusing on gender and class inequalities, and ritual practices. Her most recent work looks at inter-faith religious and music practices on the Indian-Pakistan border.

Nick Crossley joined Manchester Sociology in , serving as Head of Sociology (-) and co-founding the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis. Nick’s research interests focus on social network analysis, social movement analysis, and relational sociology , applied to such diverse topics as post-punk music worlds, gym membership and psychiatric movements. His books include Towards Relational Sociology ().

Bev Skeggs joined Manchester Sociology in and was Head of Department from -. Her work has been influential in both feminist studies and studies of class. Her book Class, Self, Culture () explores the ways in which class circulates as a form of value in relation to different bodies. She has also published work on sexuality, representation and space, including work on the Gay Village in Manchester.

Virinder Kalra joined Sociology in . He works in the field of racism, ethnicity and diaspora, in publishing a key work on hybridity (with Kaur and Hutnyk) Diaspora and Hybridity. Virinder continues to write on South Asian diasporas and recently his work has focused on both popular religion and music with a focus on Sufi shrines in both Pakistan and India.

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Brian Heaphy Brian Heaphy Brian Heaphy Brian Heaphy joined Manchester in becoming Head of Sociologyin . Best known for his work theorising sexuality and personal life, his book Same-Sex Intimacies ( with Weeks and Donovan) Launched concepts such as ‘families by choice’ into British sociological debate. His most recent work, Same-Sex Marriages( with Smart and Einarsdottir), continues to explore the impact of socialand legal changes on personal life.

Carol Smart Carol Smart Carol Smart Carol Smart joined the department in as Co-Directorfor the Morgan Centre for the Studyof Relationships and Personal Life. She is famous for her work in socio-legal studies, as well as for launching a new area of research, the sociology of personal life. She is the author of a number of acclaimed books, including Personal Life (). Her recent work includes Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception ( with Nordqvist).

James NazrooJames NazrooJames NazrooJames Nazroo, joined the department in , and since has directed the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research. His research focuses on issues of gender, ethnic and ageing inequalities, and on ethnic inequalities in health. He also directs the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), which examines changing patterns of inequality and identity.

Alice BlochAlice BlochAlice BlochAlice Bloch joined Manchester in . Her research focuses on understanding the experiences of forced migrants, and recent key publications include Sans Papiers: The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants in the UK (with Sigona and Zetter, ).

Martin EverettMartin EverettMartin EverettMartin Everett joined Manchester in , co-founding the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis. His research interests are in the areas of mathematical sociology, with a particular focus on social networks. He is a co-author of the software package UCINET the world’s most commonly used software package for analyzing social network data.

Jennifer Mason Jennifer Mason Jennifer Mason Jennifer Mason joined the department in as Co-Director for the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life. Her work on kinship has helped shape the ‘new kinship studies’. She has also been influential in shaping the methodological agenda for qualitative research, not least as director of an ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Node, -.

Chris Phillipson Chris Phillipson Chris Phillipson Chris Phillipson joined Manchester in and co-Directs the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA). His research focuses on ageing populations, and questions of community life, poverty and social exclusion in old age. His publications include Ageing (), and Work, Health and Well-Being: the Challenges of Managing Health at Work (with VickerstaffandWilkie,).

Claire AlexanderClaire AlexanderClaire AlexanderClaire Alexander joined Manchester in . Her research focuses on questions of race, ethnicity, and youth identity in Britain. Publications include The Asian Gang () and Mapping Changing Identities (with Kaur and St Louis, ). Her recent research on the oral histories of migrants in India, Bangladesh and Britain, was developed into a website for schoolchildren (www.banglastories.org) and used to inspire young people to engage with family and community histories (www.makinghistories.org).

Dale SouthertonDale SouthertonDale SouthertonDale Southerton joined Manchester in as a Research Fellow, moving to Sociology in . His work focuses on various aspects of consumption, consumer culture,time, everyday life and sustainability. He directs the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), and the Sustainable Practices Research Group (SPRG) funded by the ESRC, DEFRA and the Scottish Government.

Hilary Pilkington Hilary Pilkington Hilary Pilkington Hilary Pilkington joined Manchester in . Her work focuses on youth and youth culture in Eastern Europe, with a long standing interest in drug use, migration and displacement in contemporary Russia. Her books include Russia’s Youth and Its Culture: A Nation’s Constructors and Constructed(), and Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives (with Omel’chenko and Garifzianova, ).