Barbara Adam Explained

Barbara Adam
Birth Date:	3 May 1945
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Lecturer, Cardiff University Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University Founding editor, Time & Society
Awards:	Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association 1991 J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995
Honours:	Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009)

Barbara E. Adam,, FLSW (born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999.^{[1] [2]} She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.

Honours

In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association for her monograph Time and Social Theory.^[3] In 1995, she was awarded the J T Fraser Prize by the International Society for the Study of Time for her monograph Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time. In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS); in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies.^[4]

In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[5]

Selected works

• Book: Adam . Barbara . Time and social theory . 1990 . Polity . Oxford . 978-0745607405.
• Book: Adam . Barbara . Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time . 1995 . Polity Press . Cambridge . 978-0745610207.
• Book: Adam . Barbara . Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards . 1998 . Routledge . London . 978-0415162746.
• Book: Allan . Stuart . Adam . Barbara . Carter . Cynthia . Cynthia Carter . Environmental Risks and the Media . 1999 . Routledge . London . 978-0415214469.
• Book: Adam . Barbara . Time . 2004 . Polity . Cambridge . 978-0745627779.
• Book: Adam . Barbara . Groves . Chris . Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics . 2007 . Brill . Leiden . 978-9004161771.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Barbara Adam. Cardiff University. 28 January 2017.
2. Web site: Professor Barbara Adam. Institute of Advanced Study. Durham University. 28 January 2017. 2010.
3. Web site: BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. The British Sociological Association. 28 January 2017.
4. Web site: Fellows. Academy of Social Sciences. 28 January 2017.
5. Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . Barbara Adam . 2023-08-22 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.