Professor Claire Wallace

Professor Claire Wallace
Professor Claire Wallace
Professor Claire Wallace

B.A.(Hons), PhD.

Chair in Sociology

About
Email Address
claire.wallace@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273137
Office Address

School of Social Science King's College Aberdeen AB24 3QY

School/Department
School of Social Science

Biography

After graduating from the University of Kent, Claire Wallace taught at Plymouth and Lancaster Universities. During the early 1990s, she helped to set up the Sociology Department at the Central European University Prague, before moving to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where she became Head of Sociology.  She has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 2005

Claire Wallace served as  President of the European Sociological Association, 2007-2009 and was editor of their flagship journal "European Societies". 

Within Aberdeen, she was Director of Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences, 2008-2011 and then became Vice-Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the University, 2011-2014.  

Research

Claire Wallace has been researching quality of life and was Director of the European Observatory on Social Cohesion and Trust,  2005-2006.   She spent many years working on transitions in Eastern Europe including projects on health in the former Soviet Union, national, regional and European identity as well as work, family and care across Europe. 

More recently, she was a co-investigator at the  Rural Digital Economy Hub (dot.rural) which was aimed at transforming rural areas in the UK using digital technology.  The project was funded by the RCUK, a joint UK research council initiative on the theme of Digital Economy.  As part of this research team she was also partner in the Cultures and Community Network Plus set of projects funded by the EPSRC. 

At present she is a Principal Investigator on an Horizon 2020 Project about Cultural Tourism (https://www.SPOTprojectH2020.eu) and a partner of the  ESRC-sponsored Research Centre DIGIT, focused on digital working (https://digit-research.org/),

Postgraduate Supervision

Claire Wallace would welcome postgraduate students in the following fields: work, care and welfare, quality of life, cultural tourism, digital working and the role of the digital economy in rural areas. 

 

Qualifications

  • BSc Sociology and Social Anthropology 
    1978 - University of Kent 
  • PhD Sociology 
    1985 - University of Kent 
    Claire Wallace's PhD was about young people leaving school and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Equality and Diversity Committee, School of Social Science

External Memberships

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 

Member of the European Sociological Association

Member of the International Sociological Association

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

Claire Wallace is currently Principal Investigator on two projects: Cultural Tourism and Digital Working.

The first is sponsored by Horizon 2020 of the European Union and is comparing cultural tourism in different parts of Europe (www.SPOTprojectH2020.eu).  The Aberdeen part of this is looking at media tourism - that is Tourism related to films, books, TV series

The second project is sponsored by the ESRC and is looking at the future frontiers in digital working (https:digit-research.org)

 

Research Areas

Research Specialisms

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Policy
  • Sociology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Director of Fourth Year Option "European Societies"

Publications

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  • Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Fokus-Gruppendiskusion für die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung

    Wallace, C. D., Littig, B.
    Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, vol. 23, pp. 88-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Some Characteristics of the New Middle Class in Central and Eastern Europe: A 10 Nation Study

    Haerpfer, C. W., Wallace, C. D.
    The Middle Class as a Precondition of a Sustainable Society: papers from a sociological conference in Bulgaria. Tilkidjiev, N. (ed.). AMCD Sofia, pp. 158-168, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Youth, Work and Education in Postcommunist Europe (in Hungarian)

    Wallace, C. D.
    Korunk
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Structure and Agency: participation and risk for young people in European societies

    Wallace, C. D., Nagel, U.
    Youth, Citizenship and Social Change in European Context. Brynner, J., Chisholm, L., Furlong, A. (eds.). Ashgate
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Wie Alt ist "Jung" und wie Jung ist "Alt"?: Die Restruktierung des Alters und Lebenslaufs

    Wallace, C. D.
    Diskurs, vol. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Young People and the Division of Labour in Farming Families

    Wallace, C. D.
    The Sociology of Rural Communities. Crow, G. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 97-126
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Introduction to Special Edition of Social Politics: "Gender, Citizenship and Transition"

    Wallace, C. D., Fine, K.
    Soical Politics, vol. 3, pp. 237-242
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Varying Citizenship: women, familial discourse and the New Right in Britain

    Wallace, C. D., Abbott, P. A.
    Quale Cittadinanza per le Donne?: La crisi dello stato sociale e della rappresentanza politica in Europa. Del Re, A., Heinen, J. (eds.). Franco Angeli
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Varying Citizenship: women, familial discourse and the New Right in Britain

    Wallace, C. D.
    Quelle citoyennete pour les femmes?: La crise des Etats-providence et de la representation politique en Europe. Del Re, A., Heinen, J. (eds.). Editions L'Harmattan
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Women Farmers in South West England

    Wallace, C. D., Abbott, P. A.
    Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 5, pp. 49-62
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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