Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he is Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC).

His recent publications include 'Globalisation and Belonging' with Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst' and papers in 'Sociology' and 'The American Journal of Sociology'. He is completing a book on 'Discovering English Society 1945-2000: popular identities and the social science imagination'.

He was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences (2003), elected Fellow-Designate of the British Academy (2007), and is a member of HEFCE’s Sociology sub-panel assessing the quality of research in the 2008 Research Assessment exercise. Mike was visiting professor at the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where he was a Fulbright Scholar) and at Sciences-Po in Paris. He was managing editor of The Sociological Review between 2001 and 2007.

Mike is an advisor to the Mapping Needs Project.