John Goodwin Professor of Sociology (University of Leicester, Department of Sociology).
Research interests: Youth – education to work transitions, employment, underemployment and precarity; the history of sociology – particularly ‘classic’ British empirical studies post 1940; everyday life and researching the ‘ordinary’; work and community – especially restudies and data reuse; the sociology of Pearl Jephcott, Norbert Elias, and C. Wright Mills