Manchester sociologist wins award for her distinguished service
The University of Manchester’s Professor Claire Alexander has been announced as this year’s winner of the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award.
The prestigious award is judged on service to British sociology and awarded to the outstanding individual who has contributed most to the discipline by leading an extraordinary life as a sociologist.
Claire is the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and has researched and published on race, ethnicity, youth and migration in the UK for over thirty years. She is a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).
Between 2011 and 2018, Claire was Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and she is on the editorial boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Whiteness and Education.
She is also a Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Active Communities Network and was formerly Vice-Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation and the Runnymede Trust.
