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PROFESSOR RAY PAHL Pioneering sociologist Ray Pahl died on 3 June. Ray Pahl began his academic career as a doctoral student at the London School of Economics, when he
tutored mature students for the University of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies.
In 1965 he joined the faculty at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he spent the next two decades of his career. During his time at Kent, he was appointed to a chair in sociology and was elected president of Research Committee 21 of the International Sociological Association. He joined the University of Essex in the mid 1980s and played a key role in establishing ISER. At the time he was simultaneously undertaking work on the household funded by Unilever plc and on urban issues with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Faith in the City project. Professor Pahl was also part of the team that helped establish the British Household Panel Survey. From 1998 to 2005 much of his work at ISER was on friends and friendship in collaboration with Liz Spencer. Their detailed sociological analysis of personal communities revealed a neglected form of social solidarity. He was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Sociological Association.
PROFESSOR MARTIN HUGHES
Martin Hughes, Professor of Education and a developmental psychologist who understood deeply the role of out-of-school learning, died in July.
Professor Hughes was an inspired and inspiring developmental psychologist who dedicated his life’s work to understanding the social context of children’s learning and the social embedding of their knowledge and understanding.
As well as his distinguished academic career at the University of Exeter then the University of Bristol
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he co-ordinated the ESRC Research Initiative on Innovation and Change in Education in the mid 1990s and from 2001 to 2004 directed a large ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme Project on Home School Knowledge Exchange (HSKE). Professor Hughes ended his academic career with a prestigious ESRC professorial fellowship on out-of-school learning.
PROFESSOR ALAN WALKER
Director of the RCUK New Dynamics of Ageing research programme and Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the
University of Sheffield, Professor Alan Walker has been given one of the first awards by the European Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. The award was for Advances in
Gerontology and Geriatrics in the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Professor Walker was given the award ‘for excellence and achievements in the science of ageing and in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the development of gerontology in Europe’.
PROFESSOR JOHN DUPRÉ John Dupré, Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science. Its mission is to ‘advance science and serve society’ through initiatives in science policy, international programmes, science education, and more.
Professor Dupré was elected for distinguished contributions to the history and philosophy of science, especially to the interpretation of Darwinian theories.
PROFESSOR CHRIS HUXHAM Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) Senior Fellow Professor Chris Huxham has been awarded the 2011 Routledge Award for outstanding contribution to the field of public management, as voted by the board of the International Research Society for Public Management.
PROFESSOR CHRIS SKINNER Professor Chris Skinner, National Centre for Research Methods Co-director, has been invited to serve on an advisory panel to evaluate proposed
‘research nodes’ for a new National Science Foundation – Census Bureau Research Network. This network builds on the National Centre for Research Methods model by supporting a set of nodes, each of which will conduct interdisciplinary research and educational activities on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader US research community and to its Federal Statistical System, particularly the US Census Bureau.
DR WARREN MANSELL Dr Warren Mansell, a member of the ESRC ‘Emotion Regulation of Others and Self’ research team, has been awarded the May Davidson
Lecture Award. The May Davidson Award is an award given by the British Psychological Society for clinical psychologists who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first ten years of their work as a qualified clinical psychologist.
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