Jane Franklin

Jane is a political sociologist whose work focuses on the interplay between theory, politics and policy making. Currently a policy consultant, she has worked at the Young Foundation, London South Bank University and the Institute for Public Policy Research.

At the Young Foundation Jane worked on the Mapping Britains's Needs project and the Belonging project, she was a Senior Research Fellow with the Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group at the London South Bank University and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Jane is particularly interested in the dynamic between theory, policy and practice; in issues of class, inequality and social justice in contemporary societies, and social change.

Selected publications

Social capital: between harmony and dissonance, Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London South Bank University (2007)

Assessing social capital: concept, policy, practice, Cambridge Scholars Press (with R. Edwards and J. Holland) (2007)

‘Politics and risk' in G. Mythen & S. Walklate Beyond the risk society: critical reflections on risk and human security, Open University Press (2006)

‘Social Capital: Policy and Politics' (2003) Social Policy and Society, Vol 2, No 4 (2003)

After modernisation: gender, the third way and the new politics', (2000) in A. Coote, New Gender Agenda: why women still want more, IPPR

Social Policy and Social Justice (1998) Polity

The Politics of Risk Society (1998) Polity

Equality (1997) IPPR