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Malcolm Brynin

September 5, 1949 - June 26, 2020

Dr Malcolm Brynin, Reader at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, and influential sociologist, mentor and friend,

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  • 2020-07-09 19:52:19 View / Comment (0)
    Peter L Patrick

    Peter L Patrick

    Peter L Patrick

    I knew Malcolm mainly in the context of UCU Essex, for the last 15 or so years - he was a true trade unionist, for the best reasons. But he was also admirably competitive in sport (we played tennis and table tennis), where he expressed himself fully! and a fellow opera lover, very unpretentious about it too. Malcolm was a fighter with a big heart: full of courage, perceptive about injustice, committed to battling it, and kind to those who suffered it. He helped so many people - confidentially, behind the scenes - who believed they were being treated unfairly, with wise advice and dedication. He was never afraid to speak out or disagree. He was also a truly funny man, and very good company. I am so sorry his last months were painful and difficult. I miss Malcolm already.

  • 2020-07-09 13:20:58 View / Comment (0)
    Colette Lo

    Colette Lo

    Colette Lo

    Malcolm had a great sense of humour and I'll always remember the witty emails he sent round when there were no teaspoons or forks in the kitchen! A loyal supporter of the UoE choir, sometimes we would chat about the choir concerts and music. He was kind, thoughtul and easy to talk to. After I had a spell of ill-health he would ask me how I was doing. He faced his own illness bravely. We will miss him but will think of him often and his memory will live on.

  • 2020-07-09 10:42:13 View / Comment (0)
    Wouter Zwysen

    Wouter Zwysen

    Wouter Zwysen

    Malcolm was one of my supervisors for the PhD at ISER, and I was very happy to be able to keep collaborating with him afterwards. As can be seen from all the lovely tributes he was a very kind and helpful man. This would also mean he was busy and meetings could get lost in the calendar – I remember having stressed for a meeting for a week or so to then bump into Malcolm who had forgotten about it utterly – but very characteristically we could then just sit down and discuss. I could always just walk in with questions or ideas, or for tea and cake. He combined being thorough and insightful with a very kind way of teaching, always supportive and quite funny. I was very saddened when he told me he was ill and nothing could be done anymore, and I was dreading to read the message of his passing. I am very grateful to have known Malcolm and to have been able to learn much from him. My thoughts go to his family and friends.

  • 2020-07-09 10:39:21 View / Comment (0)
    Paul Clarke

    Paul Clarke

    Paul Clarke

    Malcolm was a good colleague and friend whose company I enjoyed immensely. I took to him very quickly (not sure about the other way round) because he was always deadpan funny - but never more so than when he was irritated (mostly by me). I of course respected him as a colleague before I got to know him, and already had a high regard for his work on homophily, which demonstrated real insight and showcased his ability to convey ideas with clarity. But the more I got to know him, the more I appreciated the (seemingly) limitless extent of his knowledge, his thoughtful political outlook and commitment to justice (his work as a UCU case officer says so much about the man), and his side-line as a cultured bon viveur (he was more surprised that I was surprised when he told me of his and Terri’s annual pilgrimage to Glyndebourne). He only mentioned in passing that, during weekend visits over a number of years, he’d cleared a couple of acres and planted a wood at the back of Terri’s farmhouse in Yorkshire: The Forest of Brynin! - you’d never have shut me up if I’d done that. The illness was a cruel blow that he and Terri handled with fortitude and dignity. It pains me they had to go through it. But the memory of Malcolm that’ll stick for me will be fond: him sat in his garden following his operation, soaking up the sun, and talking with boyish enthusiasm about the next round of world cup games. Farewell, old boy.

  • 2020-07-07 15:54:52 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    From Janice Webb, ISER Malcolm was a colleague since I joined ISER in 1995. I had the honour of working with him firstly when I assisted him in organising a BHPS Conference and then more recently as Graduate Administrator during his term as Graduate Director. Malcolm was a pleasure to work with, he always listened with interest, helping so many students as well as myself. He was ultimately funny with his dry sense of humour! A gentleman! Malcolm’s office! His giant pin board is a work of art! It fascinated me, his superb collection of photographs and postcards so creatively set out, says so much about a person. It should never be dismantled!

  • 2020-07-07 13:14:14 View / Comment (0)

    Elaine Prentice-Lane

    I feel incredibly fortunate to have known Malcolm both as a friend and colleague for nearly 30 years. He was such a lovely man - honest, straightforward, highly principled, and with such a wonderful, dry sense of humour. He was truly one of the best, and both ISER and the University were so very lucky to have had such a dedicated member of staff. I will miss him beyond words. RIP dear Malcolm. xx

  • 2020-07-07 12:59:23 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    From Franco Bonomi Bezzo, ISER PhD Student. I met Malcolm for the last time at Barbican in May 2019 and even if his health was already very poor he spent the majority of our conversation to ask me about what I was doing and what were my plans. I think this clearly represents his generosity and altruism. Since the beginning of my PhD he has been always nice and supportive, without renouncing to sharp critics and comments when needed. In the last email he asked me to forget him but I am sure his heritage will never be forgotten and I will do my best to try to replicate with others his respectful behaviour. Thanks a lot, Franco ********************* Franco Bonomi Bezzo PhD Student

  • 2020-07-07 12:12:37 View / Comment (0)
    Jay James

    Jay James

    Jay James

    Malcolm was just a lovely man, always time for a chat (about all sorts) and the chats mostly happened on the stairs haha. He was always asking about my son. 'How is your son doing?' As he knew I found it very difficult when he moved back to Holland a few years ago. I've never worked with Malcolm, but he was always around. He was an open man, not affraid to show his feelings and very funny. He will be missed by so many people. I'm sending strength, love and hugs to his wife, family and friends....

  • 2020-07-07 12:00:41 View / Comment (0)

    Lorraine Collins

    Malcolm was an active member of Essex UCU for a decade or more, well liked and respected by colleagues on the branch committee and throughout the university community. He served at various times as our casework coordinator, as a caseworker himself, and from time to time, as a picket organiser. His thoughtful insights and patient steadiness were much valued in dealing with difficult issues and questions of how to support a member in need. In recent years Malcolm played a leading role in UCU’s work to hold management to account in its many restructurings and resultant redundancies. He worked selflessly to resist redundancies by pointing out the logical flaws, personal politics, uncaringness, and loss of expertise he perceived in these processes. He was always willing to draft a well-informed document or briefing or letter to senior management about ill-considered job losses. His wisdom, kindness, and generosity were appreciated by every member of UCU lucky enough to know him. Malcolm has been taken from us before his time. His friends and comrades on the UCU committee will miss his wise and humble presence. Rest in Peace, Malcolm. Tributes from Malcom's UCU colleagues can be read at: http://www.ucu.essex.ac.uk/2020/06/30/rip-malcolm-brynin/

  • 2020-07-06 17:52:35 View / Comment (0)
    Olena Kaminska

    Olena Kaminska

    Olena Kaminska

    I will always remember Malcolm as a happy, kind and generous in time and discussion person with whom I shared many lunches in the common room. We had often long discussions of the current political affairs, reaching into effects of these onto societal and economic outcomes across different countries. I always thought that Malcolm was very interested in politics and only now realize that one could have as easy discussions with him on many other topics. We will miss him at ISER.

  • 2020-07-03 22:36:00 View / Comment (1)
    Louise Corti

    Louise Corti

    Louise Corti

    I was recruited just before Malcom started in 1989 at Essex, where we worked in a small team on the design of the new panel study under David Rose and Ivor Crewe. Those memories of my first real job after I’d finished my Masters’ Degree have stayed with me, and will do forever. Malcolm provided us rookies with an extraordinary kind of role model, that I value to this day. He demonstrated to me that humour, cynicism, social gathering, arts and alcohol were just as important as dedication to our work, which we all shared in our collective enterprise to build a new survey. Our small group shared laughter, pranks, badminton, video-making, food, trips to the theatre, and a lot of wine to counter the week’s work! We visited his home, met Terri and they showed us the beautiful scenery on his Yorkshire doorstep. As well as being a very funny, witty man, Malcolm was always incredibly generous, always asking after my life and family. I know how completely dedicated he was to his academic career, desperate to complete the paper he had been writing when he became ill. I am so sad Malcolm has left us, but I treasure the memories he has left with me. Rest in peace Malcolm. Louise xx

  • 2020-07-03 17:40:57 View / Comment (1)
    Sonia Bhalotra

    Sonia Bhalotra

    Sonia Bhalotra

    I met Malcolm as soon as I arrived in Essex. I had an office in ISER right beside his. Malcolm showed me around the University. We laughed about Zest vs Blues as mood choices for a cup of coffee. When I was looking to buy a house in Wivenhoe Malcolm came with me to view houses and provide a second opinion. He played bananagram and carom board with my daughter. We exchanged favourites in classical music and his love of opera enhanced my own appreciation of it. There was a thin wall between our offices. He could hear me sneeze. And I regularly caused him disturbance when I talked to co-authors on skype. If one of us made a cup of tea, we would often make a cup for the other, on the grounds that we were achieving scale economies. He talked to me about his research and about his childhood. He shared with me the manuscript of a novel he was writing. Sometimes when I was cycling on the bridge of land between the marshes and the river in Wivenhoe, Malcolm would be standing at The Albion in Rowhedge and ring to tell me he was waving from across the river. When I had a surgery on my knee, Malcolm drove my daughter to the hospital to see me. I have many debts to Malcolm for these things and many good memories of funny and horizon-widening conversations. I was greatly saddened to witness the decline of his health following the diagnosis but also full of respect and admiration for his will to live and his fighting spirit. I know that Terri has been a great support to Malcolm, as have some of his close friends, many at the University. Reading the many very touching memories of Malcolm on this page, I so wish he could read them. He often felt isolated in the University and I think he would feel so much better if he could have seen how fondly and with how much respect so many people remember him.

  • 2020-07-03 09:38:15 View / Comment (0)
    Ayse Guveli

    Ayse Guveli

    Ayse Guveli

    It must have been in one of the ISER seminars when we first met with Malcolm and kept meeting over coffee to give a break and have nice and interesting conversations about all sorts of things from travel to religion, social class, from 'going Dutch' to music and our migration backgrounds. I was impressed of his exceptionally extensive knowledge on broad range of topics. His modest and humble attitude and careful and gentle behaviour were his salient characteristics. He shared his self-made cakes with me and especially his carrot cakes over the afternoon tea were delicious. Our research on ethnic pay gap generated much interest by the media, policy makers and other stakeholders back in 2012 and afterwards. This research showed that Black, some Asian, and minority ethnic members of Britain were earning less than their White peers and that was mainly because of their concentration in low paid jobs. I remember our recent discussions about these persisting inequalities in our current societies. He leaves behind many other interesting studies. I am very sorry he left. Rest in peace Malcolm.

  • 2020-07-02 15:27:28 View / Comment (0)
    Maria Iacovou

    Maria Iacovou

    Maria Iacovou

    When I first arrived at ISER, Rene Boheim and I rented rooms in Tim Butcher's house. Malcolm was a frequent and most welcome visitor; he was an excellent conversationalist with an exceptionally wide range of interests, and a truly brilliant dry wit. He also had an impressive (and possibly unique) ability to levitate his entire body from a sofa or armchair at exciting moments during a televised football game. It wasn't all play - Malcolm and I also had a great working relationship. Much of what I know about the sociological approach to research, I learned from Malcolm; and he was extremely supportive when I became Director of Graduate Studies at ISER, always prepared to offer a friendly word about how I might approach this problem or that. I am so sorry to lose him.

  • 2020-07-02 15:13:01 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    From Raj Patel, ISER My interactions with Malcolm left their mark, even though the opportunities for our paths to cross weren’t that often. He was always willing to share his thoughts and insights and his dry sense of humour certain one that many who know him recollect as a great characteristic. In some ways he stood out because he was always ready make a real difference to policy within his broad area of expertise. He will surely be missed, if for no other reason than there can only be one Malcolm Brynin! Raj Patel, Associate Director of Policy, Understanding Society

  • 2020-07-02 15:13:11 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    From Geoff Angel, ISER Malcolm was a lovely man with whom I had a lot in common. We shared our support for Spurs and like me Malcolm could recall those long ago days when it was a successful team. He also similarly liked cricket and all sorts of other sporty things. I also have another connection with him which is that I also had the same medical issue. In my case it was caught early some years ago, but Malcolm wasn’t so lucky. Possibly he would have been if it had been picked up earlier. Obviously Malcolm and I have spoken about the condition, and I’m sure it would make him happy if learning from his experience saved another from going through the same thing. So if you have regular reflux, and especially if you sometimes have problems swallowing, then get it checked out. On a lighter note, shortly after starting at ISER I played tennis with Malcolm. I was used to playing doubles whereas Malcolm usually played singles, and he transformed from Mr Friendly to Mr Competitive once on court! I will miss both versions of Malcolm greatly.

  • 2020-07-02 14:56:28 View / Comment (0)
    Man-Yee Kan

    Man-Yee Kan

    Man-Yee Kan

    Malcolm was a great colleague and friend when I worked at ISER in 2004-06. He was always kind, generous. and approachable At that time I was a junior academic. Malcolm gave me good advice on how to respond to RnR journal reviewers' comments. We had many nice chats over sandwich lunches at his office and at ISER common room. I remember he wore only socks without shoes at the office! He also helped me understand the data of Home on Line surveys, which he was responsible for survey design and data coding. In the meantime, he told me how good the Linux system was because he stored everything there.

  • 2020-07-02 12:51:42 View / Comment (0)
    Eric Harrison

    Eric Harrison

    Eric Harrison

    Malcolm was a colleague during my two-year stint at ISER between 2004 and 2006.So many of the other memories on here chime with me and have reawakened others of my own. We had things in common: we were islands of sociology among our labour economist and demographer colleagues; we were long-distance weekly commuters. We enjoyed a bit (okay a lot) of levity and we liked to talk about inequalities - class and otherwise. I too remember him wandering the Butler building in his socks - not just in the evening but in the middle of the afternoon while we both had a tea break. ISER's famous for its technical virtuosity, and he had the requisite skills, but I'll remember him more for his humanity. He was a stimulating but generous critic. He was always engaged with, sometimes sceptical of, the many seminar presentations we attended together. But he was also the guy most likely to be setting out the bowl of twiglets and cleaning up the wine glasses afterwards. And making sure the visiting speaker was properly hosted, and got a lift to the restaurant and back. A good citizen, an exemplary colleague, and a thoroughly decent bloke.

  • 2020-07-02 01:03:50 View / Comment (0)
    Thomas Scotto

    Thomas Scotto

    Thomas Scotto

    As a member of the Department of Government from 2007-2016, Malcolm served as my entry point into all things related to the ISER and the British Household Panel. For those who work with the panel, they know data management is key, and Malcolm was an ace. He also was a wonderful conversationalist who introduced me to pubs across the river Colne and made me an agitator for a footbridge from Rowhedge to to Wivenhoe!

  • 2020-07-01 22:23:15 View / Comment (0)

    Alvaro Martinez-Perez

    Malcolm was my PhD supervisor and our friendship grew ever since. From him I learnt to think with sociological curiosity around us. He was very skilled in his writing which transpired his deep cultural knowledge. He was also an example in how important is to wirk hard to learn, with determination, how to manage abd abslyse complex survey data. With time he became the most senior sociologust keeping the "S" of ISER with its full inaugural meaning. Malcolm, and Terri, shared sone of my happiest moments: my wedding, the arrival of my children. My wife abd I also were very happy when we met Terri. The last tine we saw Malcolm (and Terri) we hugged each other to say good bye (I think we both felt that perhaps that was going to be the last time). He told me: "You have been good to me, Alcaro". I can only say you too, Malcolm.

  • 2020-07-01 22:09:04 View / Comment (0)
    Lucinda Platt

    Lucinda Platt

    Lucinda Platt

    My enduring memory of Malcolm will be catching a chat with him in the quiet of the evening after others had left, he standing in the corridor between our offices in his socks offering observations on sociology, behind him a large pile of books recently gathered from the library to inform a grant proposal.

  • 2020-07-02 08:58:51 View / Comment (0)

    MiSoC University of Essex

    Malcolm's work was so important, and he had so much drive to shape policy in addressing gender and ethnic inequalities in work and pay, among other things. Lovely short video of him talking about his work for the EHRC, including "how can we can get more women into higher paid jobs with higher prestige" https://vimeo.com/354630621 - he was a class act and will be much missed.

  • 2020-07-01 16:15:49 View / Comment (0)
    Helen Barnard

    Helen Barnard

    Helen Barnard

    Malcolm was a truly insightful researcher, and was lovely to work with. I worked with him as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's programme of research into the links between poverty and ethnicity. Malcolm, with Simonetta Longhi carried out a fantastic project uncovering why workers from ethnic minority groups were more likely than those who were from the majority population to be paid less than the voluntary living wage. That research played a crucial role in developing my understanding of in-work poverty and the factors that contribute to such high rates of in-work poverty among some ethnic minority groups. He will be greatly missed by the research community, as well as his family, friends and colleagues.

  • 2020-07-01 16:07:55 View / Comment (0)
    Louise Cullen

    Louise Cullen

    Louise Cullen

    Malcom Brynin presenting his EHRC evidence on pay gaps and low pay at the Westminster Employment Forum April 2019 to an audience of employers and diversity champions from industry, business and the public sector.

  • 2020-07-01 16:07:00 View / Comment (0)
    Louise Cullen

    Louise Cullen

    Louise Cullen

    Malcolm, as our longest serving member of staff at the House of Lords celebration of ISER's 30th anniversary in June 2019, with colleagues Elaine Prentice-Lane and Jane Ismail

  • 2020-07-01 14:18:06 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    You can read Malcolm's obituary on the Institute for Economic and Social Research at: www.iser.essex.ac.uk/blog/2020/06/30/dr-malcolm-brynin-obituary

  • 2020-07-01 13:50:17 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    Professor David Rose, Emeritus Professor, ISER, University of Essex: Malcolm Brynin was one of the first appointees in 1989 to what was then the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (Misoc) and he was the last of the founding members of the Centre still to be working in ISER. His initial role was related to the development of the British Household Panel Study with responsibility for fieldwork, including interviewer instructions and interviewer training. Subsequently he designed the survey respondent database having learned how to do this from scratch. However, Malcolm was appointed not only because of his experience of surveys and fieldwork gained at both City University, London and Social and Community Planning Research (now NatCen) but because he was also a researcher. This fitted with the requirement that the creation of an effective BHPS was not simply a matter of employing excellent survey techniques but that the whole process should be research driven and hence designed by a combination of survey specialists and researchers. Once the survey was established, Malcolm took initial responsibility for methodological research in relation to the BHPS before becoming Survey Manager. However, Malcolm’s contribution in the early days of MiSoC was not confined to his formal responsibilities. He also played a key role in developing the positive culture of the centre in its early days. He did this both by the force of his personality and his humour, as well as through helping to organise a range of extracurricular social activities. Among these were evenings with wine and food at his home, shared with Iain Noble who was responsible for questionnaire design. It was at one of these that our cosmopolitan staff began to talk about recipes they enjoyed cooking. This led Malcolm to request each of us to submit a recipe to be included in a MiSoC cookbook. This book began, suitably given we were designing a survey, with response rates – a healthy 80.5% of staff had provided at least one recipe - along with humorous reasons why some staff members had been non-respondents. There was also a satirical references section at the end of this 32-page book in which the foibles of some staff members were gently, but very accurately mocked. It was this kind of activity which really did bring people together, allowed us to laugh with and at one another, and develop an esprit de corps. In 1995 Malcolm was seconded to the Cabinet Office for four months to work on the Technology Foresight project for the Office of Science and Technology. In this role he gained the admiration of all who worked with him, including the then Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir William Stewart, who said that his work was ‘a credit not only to the University of Essex but to the broader field of social science’. This statement proved to be prescient for the whole of Malcolm’s subsequent career with ISER. On his return to MiSoC, he was invited to transfer to a full-time research role. For this he had to further develop his quantitative research skills as well as taking responsibility for producing research proposals. He succeeded at both. His subsequent publication record and success in raising research funds were both exemplary. On his own initiative, he raised well over £2m from across the whole range of research funders – the EU, ESRC, the private sector, research foundations, government departments and quangos. He also made substantial contributions to applications to ESRC for the refunding of MiSoC. In addition, he undertook many consultancies in the UK, EU and USA. He also served two terms on the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society. His publication record was excellent. Apart from three books, it included numerous papers in high ranking, mainstream journals, including joint authorships with luminaries in other disciplines and universities. This included work arising from his BT funded research on the impact of new household communication technologies on people’s daily lives. He also published widely on various forms of inequality and their effects, most especially gender and ethnicity inequalities in the labour market as well as inequalities in outcomes from participation in higher education. Beyond this, he was extremely effective in communicating the results and relevance of his work to the wider policy community. He was thus fulfilling one of the original aims of ISER by working across disciplinary boundaries, by networking with other researchers as well as with organizations in the UK and across the EU, and by ensuring that his work had impact beyond the academic community. Even after he became ill, he continued to do research, to publish and to attend events such as that on BAME in the workplace organized by the Westminster Employment Forum where he offered academic evidence on gender pay gaps alongside key figures from both industry and the policy community. This followed a report he produced for the Equality and Human Rights Commission which examined the size, causes and variations of the gender pay gap in Britain, its impact on family and caring duties, and recommendations on how to reduce it. Malcolm was more than all these things, though. He was a stalwart of ISER, loyal, hard working, a team player, sometimes taking on responsibilities that may not have been his personal choice. He was a willing mentor of others, including many PhD students. He helped colleagues across the university through his caseworker role with the University and College Union. He served on the University Senate. He had a wide knowledge of music and theatre. He had a deep sense of justice that allowed him to speak truth to power. His friendship was treasured by many, but then he was a lovely and generous man, wise, charming company, and with, as many will attest, a very wry sense of humour, a satirical wit. This is all borne out by the following spontaneous comments from some of his colleagues when they heard of his death: “In some ways Malcolm never changed over the years. Lovely, honest, very straightforward, with an amazingly dry sense of humour. He was one of the best.” “Malcolm was a lovely bloke, gentle, wise and funny, the sort I wish there were more of in the world, and I’m glad to have known him.” “Malcolm was a great and funny guy, a wonderful colleague, and will be missed.” “I knew Malcolm as a deeply kind and caring person, in addition to his wide interests and curiosity. I am very glad I made his acquaintance, and his friendship meant a lot to me.” Our thoughts go out to Malcolm’s wife, Terri, and his family. David Rose FAcSS Emeritus Professor of Sociology ISER University of Essex

  • 2020-07-01 13:46:46 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    Professor Marco Francesconi, Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, said: ‘I was lucky to share nine years with Malcolm at ISER. He was an excellent colleague, a true scholar full of knowledge of his research areas and curious to expand them constantly. Discussions with Malcolm did not stop with sociology or economics; he had an amazing familiarity with English theatre of all ages and a fine knowledge of classical music. Endless, witty, entertaining discussions on vegetarianism, Marlowe and Ibsen, Janacek and Birtwistle. He was a friend and will be sorely missed.’

  • 2020-07-01 13:46:25 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    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.’

  • 2020-07-01 13:45:54 View / Comment (0)

    University of Essex

    Professor Nick Buck, former Director of ISER, paid tribute to his outstanding contribution to ISER’s work over three decades. ‘Malcolm arrived at ISER near the very start in October 1989, and has been an excellent colleague throughout that time, contributing substantially to the academic and social life of the Institute. He came to work on the British Household Panel Survey where he had a significant impact on the study design and the questionnaire. He went on to undertake innovative work on the impact of new household communication technologies on daily lives including survey projects funded by BT and a cross-national comparative project funded by the EU. This was at the stage when these technologies were still quite novel. Over his time at ISER Malcolm made a major contribution to maintaining the strength of sociological research in ISER. He has published significant work in recent years contributing to the understanding of gender and ethnicity inequalities in the labour market as well as inequalities in outcomes from participation in higher education.’

  • Louise Cullen 2020-07-01 16:07:00 wrote: Malcolm, as our longest serving member of staff at the House of Lords celebration of ISER's 30th anniversary in June 2019, with colleagues Elaine Prentice-Lane and Jane Ismail

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