Fiona Devine | |
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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]
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]
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 ]