Perri 6

{{Short description|British sociologist}}

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Perri 6 is a British social scientist. He changed his name from David Ashworth to Perri 6 in 1983. Whilst not an academic at the time, many years later he said he was amused by the notion of "6, P" appearing in academic papers.{{cite book

|last=Wheen

|first=Francis

|author-link =Francis Wheen

|title=How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

|year=2004

|isbn=0-00-714097-5

|location=London

|publisher=Harper Perennial

}}

6 worked for Demos, a centre-left think tank with close ties to New Labour in the 1990s. Much of 6's recent research is based on the cultural theory of risk, which he refers to as "neo-Durkheimian institutional theory".{{cite web

|url=http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/72075-1-4/Professor_Perri_6.aspx

|title=Perri 6's homepage

|publisher=Nottingham Trent University

|accessdate=2008-05-09

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918112827/http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/72075-1-4/Professor_Perri_6.aspx

|archive-date=2010-09-18

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}} He has conducted government-backed research for the Information Commissioner's Office,{{cite web |url=http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/corporate/detailed_specialist_guides/id_cards_-_ico_response_to_government_consultation_paper_-_annex_b.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - P6 Entitlement cards paper for OIC v7.doc |date= |accessdate=2010-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725072834/http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/corporate/detailed_specialist_guides/id_cards_-_ico_response_to_government_consultation_paper_-_annex_b.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }} and has written on behalf of the think-tank Demos.{{cite web |url=http://www.demos.co.uk/people/perri6 |title=Demos | Perri 6| Profile |accessdate=2010-02-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430154558/http://www.demos.co.uk/people/perri6 |archivedate=2009-04-30 }} [click "publications"] He has also contributed to the peer-reviewed Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,{{cite journal|author=6, Perri|year=2004|title=Joined-Up Government in the Western World in Comparative Perspective: A Preliminary Literature Review and Exploration|journal=Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|volume=14|pages=103–138|doi=10.1093/jopart/muh006|doi-access=free}} Social Policy and Society{{cite journal|author=6, Perri|year=1994|title=Nonprofits for Hire: the Welfare State in the Age of Contracting|journal=Social Policy and Society|publisher=Cambridge University Press and Harvard University|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|volume=23|issue=2|pages=296–297 |doi=10.1017/s0047279400021826|s2cid=144109271 }} and Public Administration.{{cite journal|author=6, Perri|year=2004|title=New Labour's modernization in the public sector: a neo-Durkheimian approach and the case of mental health services|journal=Public Administration|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|volume=82|pages=83–108|doi=10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00384.x}}

6 is currently chair in Public Management at Queen Mary University of London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/staff/academic/profiles/6p.html|title = Perri 6}}