Barbara Adam
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Professor emerita of sociology, Cardiff University
Founding editor, Time & Society
J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995
Barbara Adam | |
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| Born | 5 March 1945 |
| Occupations | Lecturer, Cardiff University Professor emerita of sociology, Cardiff University Founding editor, Time & Society |
| Awards | Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association 1991 J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995 |
| Honours | Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009) Academician of the Learned Society of Wales (2013) |
Barbara E. Adam, FAcSS, FLSW (born 5 March 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularly in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed professor of sociology in 1999.[1][2] She is the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.[2]
Adam was educated in Germany before moving to the United Kingdom, where she spent her academic career at Cardiff University.[1] She earned both her Ph.D. and D. Sc. in sociology at Cardiff, specialising in time studies.
Academic career
Adam joined the faculty of Cardiff University, where she advanced an innovative temporal approach to social theory, epistemology, and methodology.[3] Her transdisciplinary work is taught across the arts, the humanities and the social sciences. She was awarded two major ESRC Research Fellowships (1994 and 2003) as well as senior Fellowships in Potsdam, Germany and Cagliari, Italy as well as Durham and Bristol, UK. From 1999 to 2000, she held the Max Weber Chair at LMU Munich.[4]
In 1992, Adam set up the international journal Time & Society, providing an institutional platform for the emerging interdisciplinary field focused on social time.[5]