Geoff Dench

Geoff studied Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge and then for a PhD in Social Institutions at the LSE. He first worked at the Institute of Community Studies as research assistant in 1962. He went on to become Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University before rejoining us as research associate in 1992 and research fellow in 1999. Author of over a dozen books and some seventy articles and chapters, he has written widely on gender roles and is currently working on the role of grandparents and the concept of meritocracy.

Geoff Dench has a long publications list, including: Maltese in London, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975); Minorities in the Open Society (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987). This publication was shortlisted for the Amalfi European Prize for Sociology in 1988; Crime in a Minority Situation (London: Carla Publications, 1988); Two Sides of Male Consciousness (London: Centre for Community Studies, 1992); From Extended Family to State Dependency (London: Centre for Community Studies, 1992); The Frog, The Prince, and the Problem of Men (Neanderthal Books, 1992); Fighting with Numbers (Centre for Community Studies, 1992); Young at Eighty (joint ed.) (Manchester: Carcarnet Press, 1995). This publication was nominated for Age Concern Book of 1996; Transforming Men (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996- Hardback edition) (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998-paperback edition); The Place of Men in Changing Family Cultures (London & York: ICS/Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1996); (ed.) Rewriting the Sexual Contract (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999); (ed.) Grandmothers of the revolution (London: Hera Trust, 2000); (ed.) Grandmothers: the Changing Culture (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001); Grandparenting in Britain with Jim Ogg (London: Institute of Community Studies, 2002); Minorities in the Open Society (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002); Rediscovering Family (Hero, 2003); The Moral Economy of Grandparenting with Sue Arthur & Dawn Snape ( NCSR, 2003); Valuing Informal Care with Belinda Brown (Hera, 2004). Geoff has also written many book chapters and research reports.