Prof Peter Saunders

Career: res offr Univ of Essex 1973-76, prof of sociology Univ of Sussex 1988- (lectr 1976-84, reader 1984-88); research mangr Australian Institute of Family Studies 1999-2000; dir of social research Centre for Independent Studies 2002-08 (hon sr fell 2008-); FRSA 1987

Books and Publications: Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation (1979), Social Theory and the Urban Question (1981 and 1986), An Introduction to British Politics (1984, new edn 2000), Social Class and Stratification (1989), A Nation of Home Owners (1990), Privatisation and Popular Capitalism (1994), Capitalism: A Social Audit (1995), Unequal but Fair? A Study of Class Barriers in Britain (1996), Reforming the Australian Welfare State (2000), The Survey Methods Workbook (2004), Australia's Welfare Habit (2004), The Government Giveth, and the Government Taketh Away (2007), Social Mobility Myths (2010)