Professor Phillip Brown (born 21 April 1957), a British sociologist of education, economy and social change, is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at

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. He is a prominent modern sociologist and currently the author of seventeen books (five published by Oxford University Press and six translated into foreign languages) and over 100 articles and reports. Since 2005 he has given keynote presentation in over 17 counties around the world, including the

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in Washington and

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in Geneva and EU in Brussels.

Biography

Phillip, born in 1957, was brought up in Oxfordshire in the UK. He started his working life as an apprentice at the

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car factory in Cowley, Oxford, before going to college to study

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. He received his PhD at Swansea University, Wales, his thesis on social class, education and the transition to employment in a period of high youth unemployment was later published as Schooling Ordinary Kids (1987). He was then appointed as a post-doc researcher at the

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from 1985 to 1987 followed by a lectureship in Industrial Sociology at the

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(1987–97). He became a Reader in Sociology at Kent before moving to the School of Social Sciences,

in 1997. Since 1997 to present Phillip has remained at Cardiff University as a Distinguished Research Professor.

Academic work

Phillip's current research Interests include, rethinking human capital theory, education, technology and the future of Work, sociology of talent and global talent market, education, social stratification and the prospects for social mobility, the positional competition and social congestion theory and finally the future of skill formation and the global division of labour Generally he explores the transformation of education, employment and labour markets since the rise of neo-liberalism in the 1970s, including empirical studies of education, employment and social stratification in Britain, alongside comparative studies of skills and the global division of labour in China, France, Germany, India, Korea, Singapore, the United States and more. He's been a visiting professor at the

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in Paris, and the

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. Phillip is currently a visiting professor at the Centre for Skills, Performance and Productivity Research
Institute for Adult Learning/Workforce Development Agency
Singapore and a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Zhengzhou University, China. Phillip is currently leading a review of th
'Digital Innovation for the Economy and the Future of Work in Wales'

Books

Volumes & Translated Books

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Phillip Living people 1957 births British sociologists Academics of Cardiff University Alumni of Swansea University Sociologists of education