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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  • Youth cultures under authoritarian regimes: the case of Swing under the Nazis

    Wallace, C. D.
    Youth & Society, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 275-302
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Economic Hardship and Migration

    Wallace, C. D.
    Rethinking poverty: Comparative perspectives from below. Pansters, W., Dijkstra, G., Hoebink, P., Snel, E. (eds.). Van Gorcum
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Household strategies and the role of different economies in Russia

    Wallace, C. D.
    Eastern Europe Ten Years after Communism: Transforming Power and Economy. Manson, P. (ed.). Centre for European Research, University of Göteborg
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Misunderstandings and Misleading Stereotypes:: a western feminist goes East

    Wallace, C. D.
    Soundings, vol. 16, pp. 144-167
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Nacionalni identitet i ksenofobija u srednjoj i istocnoj Europi

    Wallace, C. D.
    Europa i Nacionalizam: Nacionalni identitet naspram nacionalnoj netrpeljivosti. Hodge, C., Grbin, M. (eds.). Durieux Ltd
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The implications of democratisiation, economic development and immigration for xenophobia in East-Central Europe

    Wallace, C. D.
    Zeigeschichte, vol. 3, pp. 204-216
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Xenophobia in Central and Eastern Europe

    Wallace, C. D., EastWest Institute (EWI)
    Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Holding the Course. Rutland, P. (ed.). M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Investing in social capital: the case of small-scale, cross-border traders in post-Communist Central Europe

    Wallace, C., Shmulyar, O., Bedsir, V.
    International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 751-770
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Central European Buffer Zone

    Wallace, C. D., Sidorenko, E., Chmouliar, O.
    Europaische Ethnologie - Ethnologie Europas: Ethnologie europeenne - ethnologie de l'Europe. Giordano, C., Rolshoven, J. (eds.). Academic Press Fribourg
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Das Meinungsklima zu Migranten und Minoritäten in Zentral und Osteuropa

    Wallace, C. D.
    Justiz und Fremdenfeindlichkeit: Symposion Justiz und Zeitgeschichte. Weinzierl, E., Rathkolb, O., Mattl, S. (eds.). StudienVerlag
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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