Professor Heather Laurie, former Director of ISER, said: ‘Malcolm was one of the founder members of ISER and an accomplished quantitative sociologist. His life-long interest was in understanding social stratification and social inequalities and the impact these had on people’s life chances. In particular he produced influential work on inequalities of gender, ethnicity and religion, social divisions which are today more relevant than ever before. Malcolm had a dry sense of humour and was well liked by colleagues and the many students he supervised to successful PhDs over the years. His sociological imagination will be missed at ISER.’
Professor Heather Laurie, former Director of ISER, said: ‘Malcolm was one of the founder members of ISER and an accomplished quantitative sociologist. His life-long interest was in understanding social stratification and social inequalities and the impact these had on people’s life chances. In particular he produced influential work on inequalities of gender, ethnicity and religion, social divisions which are today more relevant than ever before. Malcolm had a dry sense of humour and was well liked by colleagues and the many students he supervised to successful PhDs over the years. His sociological imagination will be missed at ISER.’
