Prof Christopher Bryant

Career: tutorial asst Dept of Sociology Univ of Leicester 1965-66, lectr Dept of Sociology and Social Admin Univ of Southampton 1968-76 (asst lectr 1966-68); Univ of Salford: sr lectr Dept of Sociology 1976-82, chm Dept of Sociology 1982-90, prof 1982-10, dir Inst for Social Research 1993-98, dean Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences 1999-2003, pro-vice-chllr (research) 2004, prof of sociology European Studies Reseach Inst 2005-10, emeritus prof of sociology 2010-; guest prof Goethe Univ of Frankfurt am Main 1973, O'Donnell lectr Univ of Wales 2010; visiting fell: Ohio State Univ Columbus 1981, Univ of Utrecht 1986-91; visiting prof Central European Univ Warsaw 1996-99; memb: Br Sociological Assoc 1966-, Exec Ctee Br Sociological Assoc 1987-91 (chm Pubns Ctee 1989-91), Advsy Bd Central European Univ Warsaw 1999-2003; memb Editorial Bd: Br Jl of Sociology 1991-2000, International Sociology 1992-2004, Polish Sociological Review 2000-; AcSS 2005

Books and Publications: Sociology in Action (1976), Positivism in Social Theory and Research (1985), What Has Sociology Achieved? (1990), Giddens' Theory of Structuration (1991), The New Great Transformation? (1994), Practical Sociology (1995), Democracy, Civil Society and Pluralism in Comparative Perspective (1995), Anthony Giddens: Critical Assessments (4 vols, 1997), The Contemporary Giddens (2001), The Nations of Britain (2006)