John David Brewer

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John Brewer
Ludlow, Shropshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
University of Birmingham
Employer(s)University of Aberdeen (2004–13)
Queen's University Belfast (2013–present)
Stellenbosch University (2017–present)
Known forWriting career
Subjects

John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA (born 1951) is an Irish-British

Brunel University
for services to social science.

Background

Born in

UK, United States and Australia.[1]
He is the author and co-author of sixteen books, the editor or co-editor of a further six, as well as a contributor to numerous publications.

Academic work

Brewer was educated at the Universities of

Queen's University, Belfast in July 2004, to which he returned in 2013 as its first Professor of Post Conflict Studies. He was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's between 1993 and 2002. Brewer taught at the University of East Anglia before moving to Queen's in 1981. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University (1989), St John's College, Oxford (1992), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2002) and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2003). He was awarded a Leverhulme Trust
Research Fellowship in 2007–2008.

Brewer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 1998), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2003), a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2004), then only the third sociologist to be elected in the Academy's 217-year history, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2008).

He has been Chair of the

ESRC's Training and Development Board (2005–2007). Brewer has been a member of the International Assessment Panel of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2002–2007), and sat on its Governing Council (2008–12). He was also a member of the ESRC's Virtual Research College (2005–10). He sat on the Governing Council of the Irish Research Council (2012–15) and the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK (2012–15). In 2001, he became a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. In 2010 he was appointed to the United Nations' Roster of Global Experts for his expertise on peacebuilding.[2]

Writings

Brewer is author and co-author of sixteen books including, Inside the

History of Human Sciences; American Behavioral Scientist; Sociology of Health and Illness; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; and Sociolinguistics and African Affairs (three times); amongst others. In total, he has earned grant income to the value of £6.4 million. Most recently he was awarded £1.26 million from the Leverhulme Trust
to undertake a five-year study of compromise amongst victims of communal conflict.

Brewer is Series Editor for the

Bristol University Press
Book Series on Public Sociology

Brewer publishes in the following areas: crime and policing; religion and ethno-religious conflict; the sociology of the Bible;

interpretative sociological theory
.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "John David Brewer". Queen's University Belfast. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  2. ^ "John Brewer". Global Experts. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019. (appointed April 23rd, 2010)
Academic offices
Preceded by President of the British Sociological Association
2009–2012
Succeeded by