Professor Fran Tonkiss

Fran Tonkiss is Martin White Professor of Sociology. Her research and teaching are in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her work focuses on urban inequalities, urban design and development, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. She is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology, City and Economy and Society.

Key expertise: Urban Sociology, Inequalities, Urban Economies, Spatial Divisions

Fran's research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban design and development, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006). She is the co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey).

Fran is part of the Urban Sociology cluster.

Fran Tonkiss teaches on the MSc City Design and Social Science Programme, and convenes a graduate course on Urban Inequalities.

Fran Tonkiss supervises doctoral students undertaking research in urban and spatial sociology.