Barbara Adam
{{short description|British university teacher and writer}}
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{{Other people5|Barbara Adams (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Barbara Adam
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|5|3|df=y}}
| nationality = British
| occupation = Lecturer, Cardiff University
Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University
Founding editor, Time & Society
| awards = Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association 1991
J T Fraser Prize, International Society 1995
| honours = Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009)
}}
Barbara E. Adam, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FAcSS}}, FLSW (born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999.{{cite web|title=Professor Barbara Adam|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/38139-adam-barbara|website=Cardiff University|accessdate=28 January 2017}}{{cite web|title=Professor Barbara Adam|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/1011/adam/|website=Institute of Advanced Study|publisher=Durham University|accessdate=28 January 2017|date=2010}} She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.
Honours
In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association for her monograph Time and Social Theory.{{cite web|title=BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize|url=https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/bsa-philip-abrams-memorial-prize/|website=The British Sociological Association|accessdate=28 January 2017}} In 1995, she was awarded the J T Fraser Prize by the International Society for the Study of Time for her monograph Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time. In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS); in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies.{{cite web|title=Fellows|url=https://www.acss.org.uk/fellows/|website=Academy of Social Sciences|accessdate=28 January 2017}}
In 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Barbara Adam |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/barbara-adam/ |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Barbara |title=Time and social theory |date=1990 |publisher=Polity |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0745607405}}
- {{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Barbara |title=Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time |date=1995 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0745610207}}
- {{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Barbara |title=Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0415162746}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Allan |editor1-first=Stuart |editor2-last=Adam |editor2-first=Barbara |editor3-last=Carter |editor3-first=Cynthia |editor3-link=Cynthia Carter |title=Environmental Risks and the Media |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0415214469}}
- {{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Barbara |title=Time |date=2004 |publisher=Polity |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0745627779}}
- {{cite book |last1=Adam |first1=Barbara |last2=Groves |first2=Chris |title=Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics |date=2007 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=978-9004161771}}
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Category:British women sociologists
Category:Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences