England. B.Sc. (Soc.), London School of Economics, University of London, Ph.D. London School of Economics, University of London. Postdoctoral studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris. Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick since 1979. She is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Centre for Critical Realism, and was the first woman to hold the presidency of the International Sociological Association. Among her books are: Social Origins of Educational Systems (1979); Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory (1988); Being Human: The Problem of Agency (2000); Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation (2003); Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility (2007).