Lisa Adkins


Lisa Adkins is a sociologist and academic. As of 2018, she holds a professorship at the University of Sydney, where she is also head of the School of Social and Political Sciences; since 2015, she has also been a Distinguished Professor in the Academy of Finland, and previously held professorships at the University of Manchester and Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published in the fields of economic sociology and feminist theory, most recently on the welfare state and labour markets under finance capitalism and in post-industrial societies. She is co-editor-in-chief of Australian Feminist Studies.

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