Janet Finch

Janet Finch

Infobox Person
name = Dame Janet Finch DBE DL AcSS



caption = Janet Finch speaking at Keele University Students' Union, November 2003.
birth_name = Janet Valerie Finch
birth_date =
birth_place =
occupation = Vice-Chancellor, Keele University
residence = United Kingdom
salary = nowrap|£ 212,000cite news| title = Petition on university pay deal| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/6409981.stm| publisher = BBC News| date = 2007-03-01| accessdate = 2008-07-24]

Dame Janet Valerie Finch is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University,cite web|url= http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lcs/membership/finch.htm|title= Janet Finch|accessdate= 2008-07-24|publisher= Research Institute for Life Course Studies, Keele University] and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK.

Biography

Finch has published extensively on family relationships, her research interests focusing especially on inter-generational family relationships.

In September 1995, Finch was appointed Vice-Chancellor at Keele University, having previously been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University. At Keele, she has overseen substantial expansion of the University and the development of a Science and Business Park.

She attracted controversy [cite news| first = Dan| last = Ashley| title = Vice-chancellors' pay needs proper scrutiny says lecturers' union| url = http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2354| publisher = University and College Union| date = 2007-02-22| accessdate = 2008-07-24] in February 2007, when it was announced that she would receive a pay rise of 31.7 per cent: the largest such rise of any Vice-Chancellor in England that year. [ [http://www.thisisthesentinel.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158338&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158321&contentPK=16730553&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch University chief's pay rise tops 30%] ] In a statement given to the "THES", the University responded that the salary awarded would be frozen for a three-year term, and was awarded following comparisons with other institutions, and taking into account Finch's "outstanding performance during a period of cultural and procedural change and development". [cite news| first = Rebecca| last = Attwood| title = Just what did they do to merit a rise?| url = http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=208005| work = The Times Higher Education Supplement| date = 2007-02-23| accessdate = 2008-07-24]

Finch was named a CBE in the 1999 New Year's Honours List for services to social science, and a DBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours List, [cite web|url= http://www.honours.gov.uk/~/media/assets/www.honours.gov.uk/2008birthday%20pdf.ashx|title= Queen's Birthday Honours List 2008|accessdate= 2008-07-24|date= 2008-06-14|format= PDF|publisher= The Cabinet Office] for services to social science and higher education.

elected works

* "Married to the Job: Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work" (Allen and Unwin, 1983)
* "Education as Social Policy" (Longman, 1984)
* "Research and Policy: the Uses of Qualitative Methods in Social and Educational Research" (Falmer Press, 1986)
* "Family Obligations and Social Change" (Polity Press, 1989)
* "Negotiating Family Responsibilities" (with J Mason; Routledge, 1993)
* "Wills, Inheritance and Families" (with L Hayes, J Mason, J Masson and L Wallis; Polity Press, 1996)
* "Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England" (with J Mason; Routledge, 2000)

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