Carol Smart

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Carol Smart
Born (1948-12-20) 20 December 1948 (age 76)
Known forThe study of relationships and personal lives
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, criminology
Institutions University of Manchester

Carol Christine Smart [1] CBE (born 20 December 1948 [2] ) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester. [3] [4] She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples. [5] [6]

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Smart is an important figure within the feminist criminology world. Her book titled Women, Crime and Criminology, [7] written in 1976, remains a key feminist critique of criminology. Smart was also the co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester.

Career

Smart began her academic career by studying sociology at Portsmouth Polytechnic, which is now Portsmouth University. After completing her BA, she moved on to complete her masters in criminology from the University of Sheffield. She also completed her PhD in Socio-Legal studies also from Sheffield in 1983.

Smart began her teaching career at the then, Trent Polytechnic, (as a lecturer and senior lecturer). After that, she became a professor at the University of Leeds. In 2005, she moved to the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life in the Arthur Lewis Building of the University of Manchester, where she was co-director. She retired in 2014. [8]

Smart has published works in the areas of criminology, family law and social policy. Her main interests over the last few years have been family life and intimacy and how people conduct their personal lives. Smart has done much research on divorce and separation and how this affects children, the couple and other kin, and on gay and lesbian civil partnerships and their commitment ceremonies. More recently she has been working on 'Relative Strangers', [9] a project which explores the experiences of families with donor-conceived children.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences. [10]

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Reports

A set of reports funded by the Department for Constitutional Affairs using qualitative data, specifically, interviews with parents who had taken their disputes over residence and contact with their children to court. The 2003 reports relate to interviews conducted at the start of the legal process whilst the 2005 reports relate to interviews conducted as the cases were concluded.

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  1. ↑ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk . Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 19. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Smart, Carol". Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 July 2014. CIP t.p. (Carol Smart) data sheet (b. 12-20-48)
  3. ↑ Lakhani, Nina (10 April 2010). "Why dumping a friend is hard". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Carol Smart". Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Phillips, Angela (17 October 2003). "Why a child is not a house". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2010. New research from a longitudinal study by Carol Smart of the Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (Cava) research programme at the University of Leeds asked children what it actually feels like to be shared.
  6. ↑ Horin, Adele (27 March 2004). "New parental etiquette". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Smart, Carol (1977). Women, crime, and criminology: a feminist critique . London Boston: Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN   9780710088338.
  8. ↑ "Prof Carol Smart - personal details".
  9. ↑ "Relative Strangers (Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life - the University of Manchester)". Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N10.
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