Fran Tonkiss

Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Head of Department. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban development and design, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. 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). She is the 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). She is currently managing editor of Economy and Society; she was previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology, and remains a member of the editorial board.

Fran Tonkiss supervises doctoral students undertaking research on urban development, the economic and spatial structuring of cities, urban economies and inequalities.

Expertise Details

• Urban Sociology; Inequalities; Urban Economies; Spatial Divisions

Books

• Urban Inequalities: divided cities in the twenty-first century. (In press). Polity, 2018.
• Cities by Design: The social life of urban form. Polity, December 2013
• Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Work and Inequality. London: Routledge, 2006.
• Space, the City and Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.
• Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Thought, with Don Slater. Cambridge: Polity, 2001.
• Trust and Civil Society, edited with Andrew Passey. London: Macmillan, 2000.