| Fiona Devine | |
| Honorific Suffix: | CBE FAcSS |
| Birth Date: | 1962 6, df=yes |
| Workplaces: | University of Manchester Manchester Business School |
| Alma Mater: | University of Essex |
| Thesis Title: | Privatism and the working class: affluent workers in the 1980s? |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22151706 |
| Thesis Year: | 1990 |
| Main Interests: | Sociology |
| Website: | http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/people/profiles/FDevine |
Fiona Devine CBE FAcSS (born 6 June 1962)[1] is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester and Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.[2]
Devine's degrees, master's and doctorate were all gained from the University of Essex.[3]
Devine is best known for sociology writings about a new model of class structures: seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a Precariat at the bottom. She collaborated with the BBC website BBC Lab UK on the Great British Class Survey. More generally Devine specialises in social stratification and mobility; class identity; and in gender, work and family.[4] She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at Manchester.[5]
She was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Sciences in 2010 and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences.