John Goldthorpe - Curriculum vitae#
Academic career
- 1946-1953: Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School
- 1953-1956: University College London. B.A. Hons. (1st Class), Modern History.
- 1956-1957: London School of Economics and Political Science, graduate student in the Department of Sociology
- 1957-1960: University of Leicester, Junior Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology
- 1960-1969: King's College, Cambridge, Fellow
- 1961-1969: University of Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Politics
- 1969- 2002 Nuffield College, Oxford, Official Fellow.
- 2003- Nuffield College, Oxford, Emeritus Fellow
- 2003-5 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
- 2004-8 Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Oxford University
- 2008- Visiting Professorial Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London
Professional appointments and elections
- 1965-1968: Member of Sociology Committee, Social Science Research Council
- 1966-1969: Member of Editorial Board of Sociology
- 1969: President, Section N (Sociology), British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1969-1972: Editor of Sociology
- 1982-1985: President, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association
- 1984-1989: Associate Editor, European Sociological Review
- 1986-1989: Member of Society and Politics Research Development Group, Economic and Social Research Council
- 1987-1990: Member of Council, British Academy
- 1988-1992: British Academy Assessor, Economic and Social Research Council
- 1991-1994: Chairman, Social Studies Section, British Academy
- 1991-1995: Member of Board of European Consortium for Sociological Research
- 1991-2002: Member of Scientific Council, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
- 1996-2006: Member of International Curatorium, Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology, The Netherlands
Honours
- 1956: Pollard Prize for work in the sources of English history, University College London
- 1979: Fuller Bequest Lecturer, University of Essex
- 1984: Fellow of the British Academy
- 1984: Helsinki University Medal
- 1988: Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1989: Marshall Memorial Lecturer, University of Southampton
- 1990: Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, University of Stockholm
- 1993: Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecturer, University of Oslo
- 1998: Geary Memorial Lecturer, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
- 2001: Maxwell Cummings Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal
- 2001: Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2002: Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the advancement of the social sciences.
- 2003: European Academy of Sociology, Annual Lecture, Paris
