29 July 2011

Alan Walker honoured with fellowship

Professor Alan Walker as been made a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Walker, who specialises in social policy and social gerontology, is a world authority on the social aspects of ageing and directs the UK´s largest research programme in this field. He will now join only 900 other scholars in the British Academy who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Professor Walker was one of 38 new Fellows nationally to be elected this year.

Professor Alan Walker said: "This is a great honour for me as the British Academy invites relatively few social scientists into its fellowship. I am very pleased that my work has been recognised in this way and I think that it is also a great tribute to the Department of Sociological Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences, which have been huge sources of support for many years."