Professor Claire Wallace

Professor Claire Wallace
Professor Claire Wallace
Professor Claire Wallace

B.A.(Hons), PhD.

Chair in Sociology

About
Email Address
claire.wallace@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273137
Office Address

School of Social Science King's College Aberdeen AB24 3QY

School/Department
School of Social Science

Biography

After graduating from the University of Kent, Claire Wallace taught at Plymouth and Lancaster Universities. During the early 1990s, she helped to set up the Sociology Department at the Central European University Prague, before moving to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where she became Head of Sociology.  She has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 2005

Claire Wallace served as  President of the European Sociological Association, 2007-2009 and was editor of their flagship journal "European Societies". 

Within Aberdeen, she was Director of Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences, 2008-2011 and then became Vice-Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the University, 2011-2014.  

Research

Claire Wallace has been researching quality of life and was Director of the European Observatory on Social Cohesion and Trust,  2005-2006.   She spent many years working on transitions in Eastern Europe including projects on health in the former Soviet Union, national, regional and European identity as well as work, family and care across Europe. 

More recently, she was a co-investigator at the  Rural Digital Economy Hub (dot.rural) which was aimed at transforming rural areas in the UK using digital technology.  The project was funded by the RCUK, a joint UK research council initiative on the theme of Digital Economy.  As part of this research team she was also partner in the Cultures and Community Network Plus set of projects funded by the EPSRC. 

At present she is a Principal Investigator on an Horizon 2020 Project about Cultural Tourism (https://www.SPOTprojectH2020.eu) and a partner of the  ESRC-sponsored Research Centre DIGIT, focused on digital working (https://digit-research.org/),

Postgraduate Supervision

Claire Wallace would welcome postgraduate students in the following fields: work, care and welfare, quality of life, cultural tourism, digital working and the role of the digital economy in rural areas. 

 

Qualifications

  • BSc Sociology and Social Anthropology 
    1978 - University of Kent 
  • PhD Sociology 
    1985 - University of Kent 
    Claire Wallace's PhD was about young people leaving school and unemployment on the Isle of Sheppey

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Equality and Diversity Committee, School of Social Science

External Memberships

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 

Member of the European Sociological Association

Member of the International Sociological Association

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

Claire Wallace is currently Principal Investigator on two projects: Cultural Tourism and Digital Working.

The first is sponsored by Horizon 2020 of the European Union and is comparing cultural tourism in different parts of Europe (www.SPOTprojectH2020.eu).  The Aberdeen part of this is looking at media tourism - that is Tourism related to films, books, TV series

The second project is sponsored by the ESRC and is looking at the future frontiers in digital working (https:digit-research.org)

 

Research Areas

Research Specialisms

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Policy
  • Sociology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Director of Fourth Year Option "European Societies"

Publications

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  • O Jiřím Musilovi a Středoevropské univerzitě

    Wallace, C.
    Sociologicky Casopis, vol. 44, no. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Working conditions and quality of work: A comparison of Eastern and Western Europe

    Wallace, C. D., Pichler, F.
    Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union. Alber, J., Fahey, T., Saraceno, C. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 162-174, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Patterns of Formal and Informal Social Capital in Europe

    Pichler, F., Wallace, C. D.
    European Sociological Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 423-435
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Talking about Health and Well-Being in Post Soviet Ukraine and Russia

    Abbott, P. A., Wallace, C. D.
    Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 181-202
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Editorial: European Societies

    Wallace, C.
    European Societies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-2
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials
  • From Quality of Life to Social Quality: Relevance for work and care in Europe

    Wallace, C. D., Abbott, P. A.
    Calitatea Vietii Revista de Politici Sociale, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 109-123
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Patterns of Social Capital in Europe

    Wallace, C. D., Pichler, F.
    Sozialkapital: Neue Zugange zu gesellschaftlichen Kraften. Gehmacher, E., Kroismayr, S., Neumueller, J., Schuster, M. (eds.). Mandelbaum Verlag, pp. 80-92
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Family Forms and the Young Generation in the New Europe: Future Trends

    Wallace, C. D.
    The New Generation of Europeans: Demography and Families in an Enlarged European Union. Lutz, W., Richter, R., Wilson, C. (eds.). Earthscan
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Economic transformation outside the law: corruption, trust in public institutions and the informal economy in transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe

    Wallace, C. D., Latcheva, R.
    Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 81-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • An introduction to sociology: Feminist perspectives

    Abbott, P., Tyler, M., Wallace, C.
    Taylor and Francis. 430 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
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