Fiona Devine

Fiona Devine OBE FAcSS (born June 6 1962) is a professor of sociology at The University of Manchester and head of Manchester Business School.

Devine is best known for a new model of class with seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a Precariat at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website BBC Lab UK on the Great British Class Survey. More generally Devine specialises social stratification and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family . She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.

She was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Sciences in 2010 and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.

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