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]

Fiona Devine
Born (1962-06-06) 6 June 1962 (age 62)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Essex
ThesisPrivatism and the working class: affluent workers in the 1980s? (1990)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Manchester Business School
Main interestsSociology
Websitehttp://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/people/profiles/FDevine

Education

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Devine's degrees, master's and doctorate were all gained from the University of Essex.[1][3]

Career

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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]

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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]

Selected bibliography

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Books

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  • Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (2004). Social inequalities in comparative perspective. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780631226857.
  • Devine, Fiona; Savage, Mike; Scott, John; Crompton, Rosemary (2005). Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles. Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333968956.

Book chapters

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Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b "People of today: Fiona DEVINE". debretts.com. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Professor Fiona Devine". Archived from the original on 14 August 2023.
  3. ^ Devine, Fiona (1990). Privatism and the working class: affluent workers in the 1980s? (PhD). University of Essex. OCLC 22151706.
  4. ^ Staff writer (March 2011), "CRESC research and the BBC's Great British Class Survey", in CRESC (ed.), CRESC News (Issue 12) (PDF), p. 9
  5. ^ "Fiona Devine". web.stanford.edu. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014.
  6. ^ Bradshaw, Della (16 December 2013). "Manchester Business School appoints sociologist to top job". Financial Times.
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