Prof. Fran Tonkiss

Sacred Heart College Adelaide 1983-1985.

Gained a BA from the The University of Adelaide (1989), a MA from the University of Lancaster, UK (1992), and a PhD from the University of London (1995).

Professor of Sociology at The London School of Economics and Political Science and Internationally renowned figure in urban and economic sociology.

Research interests include urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space, cities and social theory, urban development and design.

Currently the managing editor of the international journal Economy and Society; previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006).

Co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey).