Fiona Devine
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Fiona Devine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 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 CBE FAcSS (born 6 June 1962)[1] is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and vice-president and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.[2]
Devine's degrees, master's 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.[citation needed] She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences.[citation needed]
