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| nationality = British| known_for = domestic violence, patriarchy, globalisationsociology>Sociologist, Criminologist| workplaces = Royal Holloway, University of LondonJohn Urry (sociologist)>John Urry, deceasedweblink}}| image_size =}}Sylvia Theresa Walby {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FBA|FAcSS}} (born 16 October 1953)WEB, Walby, Sylvia,weblink Library of Congress, 6 July 2014, Gender transformations, 1997: CIP t.p. (Sylvia Walby) data sheet (Sylvia Theresa Walby, b. 10-16-53), is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Criminology at Royal Holloway University of London. She has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for distinction in sociology.WEB,weblink Honorary Graduates 2017 - QUB, She is noted for work in the fields of the domestic violence, patriarchy, gender relations in the workplace and globalisation.Walby is coordinator of the Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe) the aim of which is to develop, through research, the knowledge base to understand and reduce gender inequality.WEB,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080311094115weblink">weblink 11 March 2008,weblink Professor Sylvia Walby, 15 June 2008, Lancaster University, 20 December 2007, Department Of Sociology, She is principal Investigator of the Lancaster node of Quing, an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006–2011, Member of the executive board, and Leader of the strand on Intersectionality. She is also co-organiser of an international network on Gender Globalization and Work Transformation (GLOW).Walby is the first UNESCO Chair in Gender Research and coordinates the associated UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group. She was appointed in 2008.

Biography

Walby has been Sociology Professor at the University of Leeds, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at Bristol University; Reader in Sociology and Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE; Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Research Centre at Lancaster University; Visiting Associate Professor in Sociology at UCLA and Honorary Visiting Scholar at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. She was the first President of the European Sociological Association and has been Chair of the Women's Studies Network UK.Her current research is situated within the tension between general social theory and specific forms of inequality, especially gender. Over the years this led her from theories of patriarchy to a current concern to mainstream difference into social theory. She has an interest in economic matters, a fascination with new political forms, and concern with marginalised groups. Today, all of these issues are framed by globalisation, the understanding of which requires new forms of social theory, especially complexity theories.She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |page=13 |supp=y }} In 2017 her contribution to sociology was recognised by Queen's University Belfast who awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences (DSSc).WEB,weblink Honorary Graduates 2017 - QUB, In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.WEB, Record number of women elected to the British Academy,weblink The British Academy, 15 August 2022, en, 22 July 2022,

Works

Social theory, Complexity theory

File:Power and Global Governance Session - Tampere.jpg|thumb|Sylvia Walby (middle) in the Power and Global Governance Session during the Power and Governance conference at the University of Tampere, FinlandFinland

• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Globalization and inequalities: complexity and contested modernities, SAGE Publishing, Sage, Los Angeles, 2009, 9780803985186, A book from a long-term programme of research.
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Complexity theory, globalisation and diversity, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, April 2004,weblink Paper presented to a conference of the British Sociological Association, University of York, April 2004.
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Modernities/globalisation/complexities, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, April 2003,weblink Paper presented to a conference of the British Sociological Association, University of York, April 2003.
• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Against epistemological chasms: the science question in feminism revisited, Signs (journal), Signs, 26, 2, 485–509, 3175450, 10.1086/495601, Winter 2001, 143602068, Pdf.

Gender, Globalization and Work Transformation

Walby is co-organiser of an international network on Gender Globalization and Work Transformation (GLOW), with members in US, Japan, Germany and UK. Key interests are in the relationship between the new knowledge based economy and new non-standard employment forms in the context of changing forms of regulation and deregulation and globalisation.

• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gottfried, Heidi, Gottschall, Karin, Osawa, Mari, Gendering the knowledge economy comparative perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke England New York, 2007, 9780230575707, Edited with GLOW.
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gender and the new economy: regulation or deregulation?, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, October 2002,weblink Presented to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar 'Work, life and time in the new economy', LSE October 2002.
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gender (in)equality and the future of work, Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom), Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester, UK, 2001, Transforming work,weblink Working paper series no. 55.

Gender-based violence

Work for the UN on improving statistics and indicators on violence against women:

• Member of UN Task Force on Violence Against Women, 2006-.

Politics in a global era

• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, The myth of the nation-state: theorizing society and polities in a global era, Sociology (journal), Sociology, 37, 3, 529–546, 10.1177/00380385030373008, August 2003, 39403982,weblink weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150612015209weblink">Pdf.

• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, The European Union and gender equality: emergent varieties of gender regime, Social Politics, 11, 1, 4–29, 10.1093/sp/jxh024, Spring 2004, 17956720, Pdf.
• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Feminism in a global era, Economy and Society, 31, 4, 533–557, 10.1080/0308514022000020670, November 2002, 145551389, Pdf.
• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, From community to coalition: the politics of recognition as the handmaiden of the politics of redistribution, Theory, Culture & Society, 18, 2–3, 113–135, 10.1177/02632760122051814, June 2001, 145727337, Pdf.

Measuring gender equality

• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Measuring women's progress in a global era, International Social Science Journal, 57, 184, 371–387, 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.00556.x, June 2005, 55479801, Pdf. Originally prepared for UNESCO, considering to what extent the Beijing +10 process has led to the improvement of the lives of women.
• Contributed research to EU Presidency (Luxembourg) report on "Beijing+10: Progress Made Within the European Union", 2005 (with Anne-Marie Theisen, Nadine Spoden and Mieke Verloo).
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Olsen, Wendy, Modelling gender pay gaps, Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom), Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester, UK, 2004,weblink Working paper series no. 17.
• "Gender, Economic Development, Economic Growth and Democracy", ESRC funded project with Wendy Olsen, 2004–5.
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, The impact of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications for UK productivity, Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom), Women & Equality Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, London, November 2002,weblink
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member Official Statistics Committee.

ESRC Gender seminars

ESRC funded seminar series, "Gender Mainstreaming" 2003–04.

• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Introduction: comparative gender mainstreaming in a global era, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7, 4, 453–470, 10.1080/14616740500284383, December 2005, 144552952,weblink Pdf.
• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Gender mainstreaming: Productive tensions in theory and practice, Social Politics, 12, 3, 321–343, 10.1093/sp/jxi018, Fall 2005, 7418058, Pdf.

ESRC funded seminar series, "What is Gender Equality", 2005-07

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• JOURNAL, Walby, Sylvia, Is the knowledge society gendered?, Gender, Work and Organization, 18, 1, 1–29, 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2010.00532.x, January 2011, Pdf.
• 2006, May. "Indicators and statistics of gender based violence"; co-hosted by Royal Statistical Society, Programme and presentations here.
• 2007, April. "Developing indicators and official statistics to monitor the new duty to promote gender equality", Programme and presentations here.

Books

• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Lancaster Regionalism Group, Localities, class, and gender, Pion, London, 1985, Research in Planning and Design Series (13), 9780850861150, registration,weblink
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Patriarchy at work: patriarchal and capitalist relations in employment, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1986, 9780816615896,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gender segregation at work, Open University Press, Milton Keynes New York, 1988, 9780335155620,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Theorizing patriarchy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1990, 9780631147688,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Lancaster Regionalism Group, Restructuring: place, class, and gender, Sage Publications, London Newbury Park, 1990, 9780803982147,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Soothill, Keith, Sex crime in the news, Routledge, London New York, 1991, 9780415058018,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Aaron, Jane, Out of the margins: women's studies in the nineties, Falmer Press, London New York, 1991, 9781850009696,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Greenwell, Jane, with Lesley Mackay and Keith Soothill, Medicine and nursing: professions in a changing health service, Sage, London Thousand Oaks, 1994, 9780803987425,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gender transformations, Routledge, London New York, 1997, 9780203431153,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Boje, Thomas P., van Steenbergen, Bart, European societies: fusion or fission, Routledge, London New York, 2007, 1999, reprint, 9780415463287,
• BOOK, Abercrombie, Nicholas, Warde, Alan, Sylvia Walby et al

• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Gottfried, Heidi, Gottschall, Karin, Osawa, Mari, Gendering the knowledge economy: comparative perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke England New York, 2007, 9781403994578,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, The future of feminism, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts, 2011, 9780745647579,
• BOOK, Walby, Sylvia, Crisis, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts, 2015, 9780745647616,

References

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External links

• Royal Holloway University of London, People
• Online Articles by Author
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070819035746weblink">Women and Equality Unit
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20040228210740weblink">Curriculum Vitae
• Review Scout Listing
• UN Presentation on Violence against women and the Millennium Development Goals

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