Jane Pilcher Explained

Jane Pilcher SFHEA is a sociologist specialising in names and naming, gender, and ageing.^[1] She is an associate professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, having previously held posts at Cardiff University and the University of Leicester.

Education

Pilcher has a PhD (1992) from Cardiff University; her thesis title was "Social change and feminism: three generations of women, feminist issues and the women's movement".^[2]

Career

After research at Cardiff, Pilcher worked at the University of Leicester as a lecturer and later an associate professor. In 2019 she moved to Nottingham Trent University as associate professor of sociology.

Her 2004 book Fifty key concepts in gender studies, co-authored with Imelda Whelehan (Sage:)^{[3] [4]} was published in a second edition as Key concepts in gender studies (2016, Sage:) with the addition of nine further concepts.^[5]

Her work has led to several appearances in the media including discussion of children and fashion on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 2011^[6] and of names on Thinking Allowed in 2016^[7] and Woman's Hour in 2017.^[8]

In 2015, she became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Selected publications

• Book: Pilcher . Jane . Wagg . Stephen . Thatcher's children?: politics, childhood and society in the 1980s and 1990s . 1996 . Falmer Press . London . 9780750704625.
• Book: Pilcher . Jane . Women of their time: generation, gender issues, and feminism . 1998 . Ashgate . Aldershot . 9781840141979.
• Book: Pilcher . Jane . Whelehan . Imelda . Key concepts in gender studies . 2016 . SAGE Publications . London . 9781446260289 . 2nd.
• Book: Pole . Christopher . Pilcher . Jane . Williams . John . Young people in transition: becoming citizens? . 2005 . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 978-1-4039-3368-3.

External links

• • • Personal website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Jane Pilcher . www.ntu.ac.uk . Nottingham Trent University . 1 April 2022 . en.
2. Web site: Catalogue record for Pilcher's thesis . librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk . 1 April 2022 . en.
3. Tyler . Alyson . 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies (review) . Gender Forum . 2006 . 13 . 1 April 2022 . . en.
4. Richards . Judy . Gender Studies: A Hitch-hiker's Guide . Sociology . February 2006 . 40 . 1 . 163–168 . 10.1177/0038038506058438. 143707168 .
5. Web site: Key Concepts in Gender Studies . SAGE Publications Ltd . 1 April 2022 . en . 5 March 2022.
6. Web site: Is fashion bad for children? . Radio 4 - Woman's Hour . BBC . 1 April 2022 . 27 September 2011.
7. Web site: Shyness - Names . Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed . BBC . 1 April 2022 . 21 September 2016.
8. Web site: What's in a name? . BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour . BBC . 1 April 2022 . 17 April 2017.