Prof Fiona Devine - personal details

Role: Head of School of Social Sciences/Professor of Sociology

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• School of Social Sciences

Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Sciences (2009-12). Previously, she was Head of Sociology (2004-7). She joined the University of Manchester in 1994 and was promoted to Professor in 2001. Prior to joining Manchester, she worked at the University of Liverpool, the Policy Studies Institute and the (then) Department of Employment HQ in London. She studied Sociology and Government as an undergraduate at the University of Essex where she also completed a MA and PhD in Sociology.

Fiona's research interests are in the field of social stratification and mobility, work and employment, and politics and participation from a comparative US/UK perspective. Much of her research has been funded by grants from the ESRC and the Leverhulme Trust. She is currently working on a US/UK comparative project on the reproduction of working-class disadvantage in education and employment with colleagues in the Institute for Social Change in the School of Social Sciences.

Fiona was a member of Council of the Economic and Social Research Council and Chair of its International Advisory Committee (2003-7). She was on the Board of NORFACE and was a member of the Governing Council of the European Science Foundation. She has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago, Harvard University and the University of Queensland. She is currently a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, USA and an Honourary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Queensland, Australia.