John Rex was a South African-born British sociologist. Born in Port Elizabeth, he was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain. He was a lecturer at the universities of Leeds (1949–62), Birmingham (1962–64), Durham (1964–70), Warwick, Aston (1979–84), Toronto (1974–75), Cape Town (1991) and New York (1996). He was also a member of the UNESCO International Experts' Committee on Racism and Race Prejudice (1967) and president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (1974–82).
The UCL Faculty of Laws is the law school of University College London (UCL). It is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties and is based in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s leading law schools, and ranked 8th globally in the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings for Law.
France Winddance Twine is an academic, filmmaker and visual artist from Chicago. She is currently a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she regularly teaches courses on race, gender, inequality, girlhood, and sociology of the body.
John Bennett Gillingham is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Paul Thompson is a British sociologist and oral historian. Prior to his recent retirement, he held the position of Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Thompson is regarded as a pioneer in social science research, particularly due to the development of life stories and oral history within sociology and social history.
Diane Rosemary Elson is a British economist, sociologist and gender and development social scientist. She is Professor Emerita of sociology at the University of Essex and a former Professor of development studies at the University of Manchester.
Alison Assiter, is the Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England.
Leonore Davidoff was a feminist historian and sociologist who pioneered new approaches to women's history and gender relations, including through her analysis of the gendered division of roles in public and private spheres. She helped create the Feminist Library in London in 1975. She was also the founding editor of the academic journal Gender & History. For much of her academic career, Davidoff was based at the University of Essex in the UK, and was a Professor Emerita when she died.
Geoffrey Hawthorn was a British Professor on International Politics and Social and Political Theory and Head of the Department of Political Sciences and International Politics at the University of Cambridge, as well as a reputed author.
June Purvis is emeritus professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth. She also edits the journal Women's History Review.
Lisa Tickner FBA is a British art historian. She has taught at Middlesex University, Northwestern University, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Mary Susan McIntosh was a British sociologist, feminist, political activist and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights in the UK.
Judith Freedman FBA CBE is a British solicitor and academic, and the Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Carol Harlow QC FBA is a British barrister and academic, emeritus professor of law at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Grace Davie is a Professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Exeter and author of the book Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without belonging.
Diana Mary Leonard, AcSS, known while married as Diana Leonard Barker, was a British sociologist, social anthropologist, academic, and feminist activist. From 1998 to 2007, she was Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Education, after which she was Emeritus Professor of the Sociology of Education and Gender there.
