Sylvia Walby

Sylvia Walby is Professor in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. She is a sociologist and social scientist known for her work in social and complexity theory, gender regimes and patriarchy, violence and society - including domestic violence and human trafficking - gender relations in the workplace, and globalisation.

She was elected founding President of the European Sociological Association in 1997. In 2008, she was appointed the first holder of the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University, where she also led the associated UNESCO Gender Research Group. She served as Principal for the Lancaster node of QUING, an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 (2006–2011) and led its work on Intersectionality. She was also co-organiser of the international network ''Gender Globalisation and Work Transformation'' (GLOW). She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022. Provided by Wikipedia