Professor Dame Janet Finch
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Janet Finch joins the Morgan Centre in summer 2010 from Keele University, where she has been Vice Chancellor since 1995. Before that she was at Lancaster University, where she was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations.
Professor Finch was awarded a CBE in the 1999 New Year's Honours List for services to Social Science. In the same year she was named as one of the Founder Academicians of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. In recognition of her contributions to Social Science, and more generally to higher education, she has been awarded honorary degrees by seven Universities. She was also awarded a DBE, Dame Commander of the British Empire, in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to Social Science and to Higher Education.
Research interests
Professor Finch's research expertise lies principally in studies of family relationships, especially relationships across generations. She has held a number of research grants and published extensively on this, and related, topics.
Professor Finch has also been involved at national level in a range of policy-making bodies related to higher education, both before and since moving to Keele. These include: Research Council funding; work with the Health Service; equal opportunities.
She has recently been appointed as the Chair Designate of Main Panel C for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework exercise. View announcement on HEFCE website (opens in new window)
Recent publications
Books
Finch J and Mason J (2000), Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England , Routledge
Book chapters
Finch J (2006), 'Kinship as 'Family' in Contemporary Britain' in F Ebetehaj, B Lindley and M Richards (eds), Kinship Matters , Hart Publishing Ltd, Oxford, pp.293-306
Finch J (2004), 'Feminism and qualitative research' in International Journal of Social Research Methodology , Vol 7, No 1, pp.56-64 [Special issue P Thompson and L Corti (eds), Celebrating Classic Sociology]
Finch J (2004), 'Inheritance and intergenerational relationships in English families' in S Harper (ed), Families in Ageing Societies: a multi-disciplinary approach , Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.164-175
Finch J (2003), 'The State and the Family' in S Cunningham-Burley and L Jamieson (eds), Families and the State , London, Palgrave, pp.29-44
Journal articles
Finch J (2007), 'Displaying Families', Sociology , Vol 41, No 1, pp.65-81
Finch J (2004), 'Family policy and civil registration: an analysis of the White Paper 'Civil Registration: Vital Change', Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 33, No 2, pp.249-266
Finch J and Morgan D (2002), 'Generations and heritage: reflections on the Queen Mother's funeral, Sociological Research Online , Vol. 7, No. 1. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/1/finch.html
Finch J (2000), 'Interprofessional Education and Teamworking: A View from the Education Providers', British Medical Journal , Vol. 321, pp.1138-1140