Professor Jane Lewis
Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics
PhD, DCL, FBA, FRSC, FRSA, AcSS
Quondam Fellow since 1998
- Barnett Professor of Social Policy and Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford (from 2000 to 2004)
- Professor of Social Policy, Nottingham University (from 1998 to 2000)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
- Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 1998)
- Lecturer (to 1987), Reader (1987–91), then Professor, London School of Economics (from 1979 to 1996)
- Postgraduate, University of Western Ontario, Canada (from 1974 to 1979)
- Undergraduate, University of Reading (from 1971 to 1974)
- Gender and social policies
- Family policies in comparative perspective
- Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy (Edward Elgar, 2009)
- Should We Worry about Family Change? The 2001 Joanne Goodman Lectures (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
- The End of Marriage? (Edward Elgar, 2001)
- (co-authored with K. Kiernan and H. Land) Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain (OUP, 1998)
- Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England (Edward Elgar and Stanford University Press, 1991)
- Link to publications
- Founder member of the Network for European Social Policy Analysis
- Gender, Family and Social Policy in the UK and EU15
- ESRC grant for empirical research under the Gender and Inequality Network, £200,000 (from 2004 to 2009).
- EC FP6 Network of Excellence grant (CINEFOGO), 40,000 euros (from 2005 to 2010).
- EC FP6 Network of Excellence grant (REWOWE), 40,000 euros (from 2006 to 2011).