Sociology Author, Researcher, Lecturer & Consultant

publications

Jane Pilcher’s publications include books and articles on socially important subjects such as childhood, relationships between generations, and gender, especially the experiences of women and girls within contemporary British society.

Jane is an associate member of the editorial board for the online journal,  Sociological Research Online.

In March 2013, Jane published an article in the journal Cultural Sociology, on children’s consumption of clothing.

research

Jane Pilcher has undertaken a range of social research projects, including a study of women in multi-generational families, an evaluation of a careers initiative aimed at schoolgirls, and an examination of children’s consumption of clothing and fashion.  More recently, Dr Pilcher has researched family surname choices in the context of changes in personal relationships.

teaching

Jane Pilcher is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, where her teaching currently includes core modules in introductory sociology and sociological theory, and optional modules in the sociology of aging and the life course. Jane Pilcher also supervises undergraduate research dissertations. At postgraduate level, Jane Pilcher supervises masters and doctoral students.

public engagement

Jane’s public engagement activities are varied and include acting as a consultant to publishers, and to organisations such as the Economic and Social Research Council and the Labour Party. Jane also advises print and broadcast media journalists, and has appeared on BBC Radio Four’s Women’s Hour, and other shows.

In 2012-13, Dr Pilcher initiated the public engagement project A Social Science of the World in 100 Objects, based at the University of Leicester’s College of Social Sciences. You can listen to a podcast of Jane talking about the project here.