{{Short description|British sociologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Jane Pilcher''' SFHEA is a sociologist specialising in names and naming, gender, and ageing.<ref name="ntu">{{cite web |title=Dr. Jane Pilcher |url=https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/jane-pilcher |website=www.ntu.ac.uk |publisher=Nottingham Trent University |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> She is an associate professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, having previously held posts at Cardiff University and the University of Leicester.<ref name=ntu />
==Education== Pilcher has a PhD (1992) from Cardiff University; her thesis title was "Social change and feminism: three generations of women, feminist issues and the women's movement".<ref>{{cite web |title=Catalogue record for Pilcher's thesis |url=https://librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma994215303402420&context=L&vid=44WHELF_CAR:44WHELF_CAR_VU1&lang=en&search_scope=CU_Search_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=CSCOP_EVERYTHING&query=any,contains,jane%20pilcher%20thesis&offset=0 |website=librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk |publisher= |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== After research at Cardiff, Pilcher worked at the University of Leicester as a lecturer and later an associate professor. In 2019 she moved to Nottingham Trent University as associate professor of sociology.<ref name=ntu />
Her 2004 book ''Fifty key concepts in gender studies'', co-authored with Imelda Whelehan (Sage: {{ISBN|9781412932073}})<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tyler |first1=Alyson |title=50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies (review) |journal=Gender Forum |date=2006 |issue=13 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/212045935 |access-date=1 April 2022 |id={{ProQuest|212045935}} |language=en}}</ref><ref name="richards">{{cite journal |last1=Richards |first1=Judy |title=Gender Studies: A Hitch-hiker's Guide |journal=Sociology |date=February 2006 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=163–168 |doi=10.1177/0038038506058438|s2cid=143707168 }}</ref> was published in a second edition as ''Key concepts in gender studies'' (2016, Sage: {{ISBN|9781446260289 }}) with the addition of nine further concepts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key Concepts in Gender Studies |url=https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/key-concepts-in-gender-studies/book239722 |website=SAGE Publications Ltd |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en |date=5 March 2022}}</ref>
Her work has led to several appearances in the media including discussion of children and fashion on BBC Radio 4's ''Woman's Hour'' in 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=Is fashion bad for children? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0150p5n |website=Radio 4 - Woman's Hour |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2022 |date=27 September 2011}}</ref> and of names on ''Thinking Allowed'' in 2016<ref name="bbc2016">{{cite web |title=Shyness - Names |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w94h5 |website=Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2022 |date=21 September 2016}}</ref> and ''Woman's Hour'' in 2017.<ref name="bbc2017">{{cite web |title=What's in a name? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08m8yrq |website=BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2022 |date=17 April 2017}}</ref>
In 2015, she became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.<ref name=ntu />
==Selected publications== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Pilcher |editor1-first=Jane |editor2-last=Wagg |editor2-first=Stephen |title=Thatcher's children?: politics, childhood and society in the 1980s and 1990s |date=1996 |publisher=Falmer Press |location=London |isbn=9780750704625}} *{{cite book |last1=Pilcher |first1=Jane |title=Women of their time: generation, gender issues, and feminism |date=1998 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Aldershot |isbn=9781840141979}} *{{cite book |last1=Pilcher |first1=Jane |last2=Whelehan |first2=Imelda |title=Key concepts in gender studies |date=2016 |publisher=SAGE Publications |location=London |isbn=9781446260289 |edition=2nd}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Pole |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Pilcher |editor2-first=Jane |editor3-last=Williams |editor3-first=John |title=Young people in transition: becoming citizens? |date=2005 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4039-3368-3}}
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==External links== *{{Google scholar ID|id=HYAI3dkAAAAJ}} *{{official website|https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/jane-pilcher}} *[https://www.janepilcher.me.uk/ Personal website]
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