Professor Dame Janet Finch, DBE, DL, AcSS

Title:	Vice Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations
Phone:	(+44) 01782 7 33333
Email:	j.v.finch@vco.keele.ac.uk
Room:	KH81
Roles:	Vice Chancellor

Background and Research Interests:

Professor Janet Finch is Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, a post which she took up in September 1995. Before that she was at Lancaster University, where she was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations.

Her research expertise lies principally in studies of family relationships, especially relationships across generations. She has held a number of research grants and published extensively on this, and related, topics. Her most recent book is the co-authored study Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England (2000).

Professor Finch has also been involved at national level in a range of policy-making bodies related to higher education, both before and since moving to Keele. These include: Research Council funding; work with the Health Service; equal opportunities.

Key Publications:

Books Authored:

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

Books Edited:

• Abrams P, Deem R, Finch J and Rock P (eds) (1981), Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980 , Allen and Unwin
• Finch J and Groves D (eds) (1983), A Labour of Love: Women, Work and Caring , RKP
• Finch J and Rustin M (eds) (1986), A Degree of Choice?: Higher Education and the Right to Learn , Penguin

Articles in Refereed Journals:

• Finch J (1980), 'Devising conventional performances: the case of clergymen's wives', Sociological Review , Vol.24, No.8, pp.851-70
• Finch J and Groves D (1980), 'Community care and the family: a case for equal opportunities?' Journal of Social Policy , Vol.9, No.4, pp.486-511
• Finch J and Groves D (1982), 'By women, for women: caring for the frail elderly', Women's Studies International Forum , Vol.5, No.5, pp.427-38
• Finch J (1983), 'Can skills be shared? Preschool playgroups in "disadvantaged" areas', Community Development Journal , Vol.18, No.3, pp.251-6
• Finch J (1984), 'The deceit of self help: preschool playgroups and working class women', Journal of Social Policy , Vol.13, No.1, pp.1-20
• Finch J (1984), 'A first class environment? Working class playgroups as preschool experience', British Educational Research Journal , Vol.10, No.1, pp.3-17
• Finch J (1984), 'Community care: developing non-sexist alternatives', Critical Social Policy , No.10, pp.6-18
• Finch J (1985), 'Work, the family and the home: a more egalitarian future?', International Journal of Social Economics , Vol.12, No.2, pp.26-35
• Finch J (1986), 'Lessons from Norway: women in a welfare society', Critical Social Policy , No.16, pp.129-33
• Finch J (1986), 'Pastoral care, juvenile justice and the welfare network', Journal of Education Policy , Vol.1, No.2, pp.133-47
• Finch J (1987), 'The vignette technique in survey research', Sociology , Vol. 21, No.1, pp.105-14
• Finch J and Mason J (1990), 'Divorce, remarriage and family obligations', Sociological Review , Vol. 28. No. 2, pp.219-46.
• Finch J and Mason J (1990), 'Filial obligations and kin support for elderly people', Ageing and Society , Vol. 10, pp.151-75.
• Finch J and Mason J (1990), 'Gender, employment and responsibilities to kin', Work, Employment and Society , Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.349-67
• Finch J and Mason J (1991), 'Obligations of kinship in contemporary Britain: is there normative consensus?', British Journal of Sociology , Vol. 42, No. 3, pp.345-67
• Finch J and Wallis L (1993), 'Death, inheritance and the life course', in D Clark (ed) The Sociology of Death: Sociological Review Monograph , Oxford, Blackwell, pp.50-68
• Finch J and Hayes L (1994), 'Inheritance, houses and the concept of the home', Sociology , Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.417-32
• Finch J (2000), 'Interprofessional Education and Teamworking: A View from the Education Providers', British Medical Journal , Vol. 321, pp.1138-1140
• Finch J (2004), 'Family policy and civil registration: an analysis of the White Paper 'Civil Registration: Vital Change', Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 33, No 2, pp.249-266
• Finch J and Morgan D (2002), 'Generations and heritage:  reflections on the Queen Mother's funeral, Sociological Research Online , Vol. 7, No. 1. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/1/finch.html
• Finch J (2007), 'Displaying Families', Sociology , Vol 41, No 1, pp.65-81

Articles in Edited Collections:

• Cain M and Finch J (1981), 'Towards a rehabilitation of data' in P Abrahams et al (eds), Practice and Progress: British Sociology, 1950-1980 , Allen and Unwin
• Groves D and Finch J (1983), 'Natural selection perspectives on entitlement to the Invalid Care Allowance' in J Finch and D Groves (eds), A Labour of Love , RKP
• Finch J (1983), 'Dividing the rough and the respectable: working class women and preschool playgroups' in E Gamarnikov et al (eds), The Public and the Private , Heinemann
• Finch J (1984), '"It's great to have someone to talk to": the ethics and politics of interviewing women' in C Bell and H Roberts (eds), Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice , RKP
• Finch J and Groves D (1984), 'Current community care policies in Britain: some implications for women' in R Genovese (ed), Families and Change: Social Needs and Public Policies , Praeger, New York
• Finch J and Groves D (1985), 'Old girl, old boy: gender division in social work with the elderly' in E Brook and A Davis (eds), Women, the Family and Social Work , Tavistock
• Finch J (1985), 'Social policy and education: problems and possibilities of using qualitative research' in R G Burgess (ed), Issues in Educational Research: Qualitative Methods , Falmer
• Finch J (1986), 'Age as a variable in social research' in R Burgess (ed), Key Variables in Social Research , RKP
• Deem R and Finch J (1986), 'Women in socialist alternative higher education' in J Finch and M Rustin (eds), A Degree of Choice? , Penguin
• Finch J (1986), 'The sociology of welfare' in R G Burgess (ed), Exploring Society , Longmans, 2nd edn
• Finch J (1987), 'Whose responsibility? Women and the future of community care' in I Allen, M Wicks, J Finch and D Leat (eds), Informal Care Tomorrow , Policy Studies Institute
• Finch J (1987), 'Family obligations and the life course' in B Bytheway et al (eds), Perspectives on the Life Cycle , Macmillan
• Finch J (1988), 'Ethnography and public policy' in A Pollard, J Purvis and G Walford (eds), Education, Training and the New Vocationalism: Experience and Policy , Milton Keynes, Open University Press
• Finch J (1989), 'Kinship and friendship' in Brook L and Jowell R (eds), British Social Attitudes: Cross-National Data , Aldershot, Gower
• Finch J (1989), 'Social Policy, social engineering and the family in the 1990s' in M Bulmer, J Lewis and D Piachaud (eds), The Goals of Social Policy , London, Unwin Hyman
• Finch J (1989), 'What does marriage mean to women?' in R Chester (ed), Does Marriage Matter? Three Perspectives , London Marriage Research
• Finch J (1990), 'The politics of community care in Britain' in C Ungerson (ed), Gender and Caring in Modern Welfare States , Harvester
• Finch J and Mason J (1990), 'Decision-taking in the fieldwork process' in R G Burgess (ed), Studies in Qualitative Methodology , JAI Press
• Finch J and Summerfield P (1991), 'Social reconstruction and the emergence of companionate marriage 1945-59' in D Clark (ed), Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change , London, Routledge
• Finch J and Morgan D (1991), 'Marriage in the 1980s: a new sense of realism?' in D Clark (ed), Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change , London, Routledge
• Finch J (1991), 'Feminist research and social policy' in D Groves and M MacLean (eds), Women's Issues in Social Policy , London, Macmillan
• Finch J (1993), 'Applied sociology in the contemporary British context' in G Payne and M Cross (eds), Sociology in Action: Applications and Opportunities for the 1990s , London, Macmillan, pp.138-54
• Finch J (1993), 'The concept of caring: Feminist and other perspectives' in J Twigg (ed), Informal Care in Europe , York, Social Policy Research Unit, pp.5-22
• Finch J (1993), 'Problems and issues in studying the family: international perspectives' in A Leira (ed), Family Sociology - Developing the Field , Oslo, Institutt for Samfunnsforskning, pp.16-33
• Finch J (1993), 'Conceptualising gender' in D Morgan and L Stanley (eds), Debates in Sociology , Manchester University Press, pp.225-48
• Finch J and Wallis L (1994), 'Inheritance, care bargains and elderly people's relationships with their children' in D Challis and B Davies (eds), Community Care: New Agendas and Challenges from the UK and Overseas , Aldershot, Goer, pp.110-120
• Finch J and Mason J (1994), 'Family responsibilities and inheritance in Great Britain' in M MacLean amd J Kurczewski (eds), Families, Politics and the Law , Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp.97-119
• Finch J (1995), 'What do we mean by family sociology?' in A Leira (ed), Family Sociology and Social Change , Oslo, Institute for Social Research, pp.11-24
• Finch J (1996), 'Responsibilities and the quality of relationships in families' in A Offer (ed), In Pursuit of the Quality of Life , Oxford University Press, pp.119-39
• Finch J (1996), 'Inheritance and financial transfer in families' in A Walker (ed), The New Generational Contract , London, UCL Press, pp.120-34
• Finch J (1996), 'Family responsibilities and rights' in M Bulmer and A M Rees (eds), Citizenship Today: the Contemporary Relevance of T.H. Marshall , London, UCL Press, pp.193-208
• Finch J (1996), 'Generations, inheritance and policy relevant research' in H Jones and J Millar (eds), The Politics of the Family , Aldershot, Avebury, pp.211-21
• Finch J (1996), 'Women, "the" family and families' in T Cosslett, A Easton and P Summerfield (eds), Women, Power and Resistance , Milton Keynes, Open University Press, pp.13-22
• Finch J and Hayes L (1996), 'Gender, inheritance and women as testators' in L Morris and E S Lyon (eds), Gender Relations in Public and Private , London, Macmillan, pp.121-40
• Finch J (1997), 'Power, legitimacy and academic standards' in J Brennan, P de Vries and R Williams (eds), Standards and Quality in Higher Education , London, Jessica Kingsley, pp.146-56
• Finch J (1997), 'Individuality and adaptability in English kinship' in M Gullestad and M Segalen (eds), Family and Kinship in Europe , London, Pinter, pp.129-45
• Finch J (2003), 'The State and the Family' in S Cunningham-Burley and L Jamieson (eds), Families and the State , London, Palgrave, pp.29-44
• Finch J (2004), 'Inheritance and intergenerational relationships in English families' in S Harper (ed), Families in Ageing Societies: a multi-disciplinary approach , Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.164-175
• Finch J (2004), 'Feminism and qualitative research' in International Journal of Social Research Methodology , Vol 7, No 1, pp.56-64 [Special issue P Thompson and L Corti (eds), Celebrating Classic Sociology]
• Finch J (2006), 'Kinship as 'Family' in Contemporary Britain' in F Ebetehaj, B Lindley and M Richards (eds), Kinship Matters , Hart Publishing Ltd, Oxford, pp.293-306