The interests of the Gender and Inequality Group are wide-ranging, although the work of all members of the group focuses on gender as a fundamental social category and/or inequalities arising from gender differences. Members share an interest in work of all types including paid, domestic, and emotional labour, as well as educational differences, issues relating to citizenship and belonging, identity and health. Engagement with these social phenomena takes place within frameworks that always seek to combine empirical research with rigorous theoretical analysis, and within comparative and cross-national contexts. With the Centre for Gender Studies, which is housed within the Department of Sociology, the group serves as a focus for a vibrant research culture, with research students, researchers and research-focused national and international events associated with it.

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Faculty in this area are:

Barbara Einhorn has research interests in gender, citizenship, and civil society; economic, political and social transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe; nation, identity and religion; migration and displacement. She teaches Gender, Nation and Identity, and supervises third year projects. She is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe (1993), Citizenship in an Enlarging Europe: From Dream to Awakening (2006) and Gender and Nation (forthcoming, 2009).

Ben Fincham is a lecturer in Sociology (more soon)

Tamsin Hinton-Smith has research interests in gender, education and qualitative research methods. She is currently working on two projects researching lone parents' engagement with education, one examining experiences of UK higher education students, and a European Social Fund project exploring the educational experiences of lone parents including teenage parents at all levels in Brighton and Hove.

Alison Phipps research focuses on gender and various aspects of social policy including labour market segregation, abortion, and rape. She is also a specialist in feminist social and political theory.

Jennifer Platt works on the history and sociology of sociology. She is interested in sociological organisations and careers in sociology in Britain and elsewhere, in the effects of migration on intellectual developments, and in the position of women within sociology. She is the author of The British Sociological Association: a Sociological History (2003).

Ruth Woodfield researches gender inequalities in relation to work, new technology and Higher Education. She is the author of Women, Work and Computing (2001) and What Women Want from Work: gender and occupational choice in the 21^st century (2007).

In addition Gillian Bendelow's research covers issues related to gender, as does that of Jennfier Platt.