Fiona Devine

Fiona Devine
OBE FAcSS
Born (1962-06-06) 6 June 1962
Academic background
Alma mater University of Essex
Thesis Privatism and the working class: affluent workers in the 1980s? (1990)
Academic work
Institutions University of Manchester
Manchester Business School
Main interests Sociology
Website http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/people/profiles/FDevine

Fiona Devine OBE FAcSS (born 6 June 1962)[1] is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and head of Manchester Business School.[2]

Education

Devine's degree, masters and doctorate were all gained from the University of Essex.[1][3]

Career

Devine is best known for sociology writings about a new model of class structures: seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a Precariat at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website BBC Lab UK on the Great British Class Survey.[4] More generally Devine specialises in social stratification and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family.[5] She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.[6]

Awards

She was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Sciences in 2010 and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (2004). Social inequalities in comparative perspective. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780631226857.
  • Devine, Fiona; Savage, Mike; Scott, John; Crompton, Rosemary (2005). Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles. Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333968956.

Book chapters

  • Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (2004), "Introduction", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C., Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 1–19, ISBN 9780631226857.
  • Devine, Fiona (2004), "Talking about class in Britain", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C., Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 191–213, ISBN 9780631226857.

Journal articles

  • Devine, Fiona; Snee, Helene (2014). "Taking the next step: Class, resources and educational choice across the generations". Journal of Youth Studies. Taylor and Francis. 17 (8): 998–1013. doi:10.1080/13676261.2014.881987.
  • Devine, Fiona; Snee, Helene (May 2015). "Doing the Great British class survey". The Sociological Review, special issue: Sociologies of Class: Elites (GBCS) and Critiques. Sage. 63 (2): 240–258. doi:10.1111/1467-954X.12282. Also available open access through Wiley.
  • Devine, Fiona (2016). "The working class, middle class, assimilation and convergence". The Sociological Review. The Sociological Review Publication Ltd. (Monograph series.)
  • Devine, Fiona; Sensler, Marianne (January–March 2017). "Class, politics and the progressive dilemma". The Political Quarterly. Wiley. 88 (1): 30–38. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12331.

References

  1. 1 2 "People of today: Fiona DEVINE". debretts.com. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Professor Fiona Devine". mbs.ac.uk. Manchester Business School. Archived from the original on 23 July 2016.
  3. ↑ Devine, Fiona (1990). Privatism and the working class: affluent workers in the 1980s? (PhD). University of Essex. OCLC 22151706.
  4. ↑ Staff writer (March 2011), "CRESC reseaarch and the BBC's Great British Class Survey", in CRESC, CRESC News (Issue 12) (PDF), p. 9
  5. ↑ "Fiona Devine". web.stanford.edu. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Bradshaw, Della (16 December 2013). "Manchester Business School appoints sociologist to top job". Financial Times.
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