Alan Warde


Alan Warde, FBA, FAcSS is a British sociologist and academic. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester since 1999.

Education and career

Born in 1949, Warde was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1971. He then completed an MA at Durham University and carried out doctoral studies at the University of Leeds; his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956-74".
Warde was appointed to a lectureship at Lancaster University in 1978 and was promoted to a readership there in 1994, before becoming a full professor in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Honours and awards

In 2018, Warde was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2011, he had also been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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