Alice Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at the UCL Social Research Institute.
Alice’s research focuses on social and educational inequalities in the life course. She has made extensive use of secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets in her research, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies of 1958, 1970 and 2000. She was Director of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) between 2010-2020. Alice has published on areas including: social class and sex differences in educational attainment, single-sex and co-educational schooling, private and grammar schools, cultural capital, reading for pleasure, social mobility, and health inequalities. She has also written about conflicts between scholarly and scientific values and gender-identity politics. She is an expert on data collection on sex and gender identity.
Her recent publications include Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 2023), co-edited with Selina Todd. A full publication list is available here.
Alice is the author of the UK government-commissioned Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender.
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