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Summary cv: John F Hall
CURRICULUM VITAE JOHN F HALL (Born 1940) _________________________________________________________________
Retired 1992 Busy, busy, busy ever since!
Most recent post (early retirement, 31 March 1992)
1976-92 Principal Lecturer in Sociology
School of Policy Studies and Social Research
Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies
The Polytechnic of North London
(1976-92) Admissions Tutor BA and BSc (Social Research)
(1978-92) Director, Survey Research Unit
(1984-90) Research Degrees Tutor, Faculty of Social Studies
(1991-92) Assessment Tutor, BSc (Social Research)
Previous posts
1970-76 Senior Research Fellow (Univ Reader Scale)
Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council
1968-70 Lecturer (tenured from April 1969)
Dept of Transportation and Environmental Planning
University of Birmingham
1965-68 Research Assistant
Dept of Economics and Geography
University of Salford
1964-65 Assistant Lecturer Grade A
English and Liberal Studies
Openshaw Technical College, Manchester
1964 Assistant Classics Master (Spring Term)
Durham Johnstone Grammar/Technical School for Boys
(seconded full time from Durham University)
Other academic
1981-83 External Examiner (CNAA)
MSc Social and Behavioural Research, Ulster Polytechnic
Main Research Interests
Subjective Social Indicators ("Quality of Life")
Collaborative research with local authorities and community groups particularly projects involving surveys, statistics and computing)
Training and employment market in the area of research and information, especially in the public sector.
Survey Research (Methods and applications)
Secondary analysis
Computing applications in the social sciences
Publications:
Extensive and varied in field of survey research, social indicators, social science computing and statistics. (See separate list)
Professional activities
Full member:
British Sociological Association (to 1992)
Market Research Society (to 1992)
Social Research Association (1978 to present)
Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis
(now Association for Survey Computing)
UK SPSS Users' Group (to 1992)
1968-70 Member: Joint RTPI/BSA Committee on Sociology and Town Planning
1968-71 Member: Research and Advisory Board,
Inst for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture, University of Birmingham
1971-74 Assessor: Social Science Research Council Computer Panel
1971-75 Co-Founder/Secretary: Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis
(now Association for Survey Computing)
1973-74, 1976-82 Editor: Quantitative Sociology Newsletter
1975-76 Member: Education Cttee, Market Research Society
1975-77 Member: Research and Development Cttee, Market Research Society
1976-79 Elected Member: Research Cttee and Finance Cttee,
British Sociological Association
1977-79 Elected Member: Executive Cttee, British Sociological Association
1977-82 Founder/Chairman and Newsletter Editor, UK SPSS Users' Group
1974 Organiser: International Conference on
Social Science Data and the new SPSS,
London School of Economics and Political Science
1974 Organiser: SSRC Survey Unit seminar
Social Theory, Social Policy and Survey Research
London School of Economics and Political Science
1975 Organiser: BSA Quantitative Sociology Group Conference,
"Evaluation Research and the Measurement of Social Change"
Univ of Kent at Canterbury
1978-87 Member: Editorial Board "Social Indicators Research"
1978-82 Board of Directors, Research Cttee33 Logic and Methodology,
International Sociological Association
1986-89 Founder: (then Convenor of Judges' Panel) Mark Abrams Prize awarded annually for best publication linking Social Theory, Social Policy and Survey Research. (taken over in 1989 by the Social Research Association): member of judging panel for relaunch in 2004 (continuing).
Community activities
1966-67 Secretary: Manchester Campaign for Comprehensive Education
1974-78 Alderman: London Borough of Haringey.
Vice-chair, Governing Body, Wood Green School.
Member at various times of Education, Planning, Finance and General
Purposes Cttees and their sub-committees. Member of majority Labour
Party Policy Advisory Group throughout and of Leader's Conference on
the Rate 1977/88 (the year the cuts started). Also Vice-chair of London
On-line Local Authorities (LOLA) and Chair of the Research Working
Party which produced "Haringey Trends"
1978-83 Chair of Governors: Wood Green School
(11-18 mixed comprehensive, L B Haringey)
Trade Union activities
1971-73 AUT staff-side representative on Joint Negotiating Panel for
&1974-76 Conditions of Service in SSRC Research Units
1979-81 Chair: Natfhe Branch, Ladbroke House PNL
1985-89 Fund Organiser: PNL Emergency Fund
(for Natfhe members defending a High Court action brought by a
student who was a senior and active member of the National Front.)
Education
1951-60 High School for Boys, Scarborough, Yorkshire
1960-63 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1960-63 St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
Qualifications
1963 BA Hons: (Classics Part 1; Social Anthropology Part2)
Cambridge University (MA 1967)
1964 Diploma in Education, Durham University (DES # 63/13331)
Retired 1992 Busy, busy, busy ever since!
Most recent post (early retirement, 31 March 1992)
1976-92 Principal Lecturer in Sociology
School of Policy Studies and Social Research
Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies
The Polytechnic of North London
(1976-92) Admissions Tutor BA and BSc (Social Research)
(1978-92) Director, Survey Research Unit
(1984-90) Research Degrees Tutor, Faculty of Social Studies
(1991-92) Assessment Tutor, BSc (Social Research)
Previous posts
1970-76 Senior Research Fellow (Univ Reader Scale)
Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council
1968-70 Lecturer (tenured from April 1969)
Dept of Transportation and Environmental Planning
University of Birmingham
1965-68 Research Assistant
Dept of Economics and Geography
University of Salford
1964-65 Assistant Lecturer Grade A
English and Liberal Studies
Openshaw Technical College, Manchester
1964 Assistant Classics Master (Spring Term)
Durham Johnstone Grammar/Technical School for Boys
(seconded full time from Durham University)
Other academic
1981-83 External Examiner (CNAA)
MSc Social and Behavioural Research, Ulster Polytechnic
Main Research Interests
Subjective Social Indicators ("Quality of Life")
Collaborative research with local authorities and community groups particularly projects involving surveys, statistics and computing)
Training and employment market in the area of research and information, especially in the public sector.
Survey Research (Methods and applications)
Secondary analysis
Computing applications in the social sciences
Publications:
Extensive and varied in field of survey research, social indicators, social science computing and statistics. (See separate list)
Professional activities
Full member:
British Sociological Association (to 1992)
Market Research Society (to 1992)
Social Research Association (1978 to present)
Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis
(now Association for Survey Computing)
UK SPSS Users' Group (to 1992)
1968-70 Member: Joint RTPI/BSA Committee on Sociology and Town Planning
1968-71 Member: Research and Advisory Board,
Inst for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture, University of Birmingham
1971-74 Assessor: Social Science Research Council Computer Panel
1971-75 Co-Founder/Secretary: Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis
(now Association for Survey Computing)
1973-74, 1976-82 Editor: Quantitative Sociology Newsletter
1975-76 Member: Education Cttee, Market Research Society
1975-77 Member: Research and Development Cttee, Market Research Society
1976-79 Elected Member: Research Cttee and Finance Cttee,
British Sociological Association
1977-79 Elected Member: Executive Cttee, British Sociological Association
1977-82 Founder/Chairman and Newsletter Editor, UK SPSS Users' Group
1974 Organiser: International Conference on
Social Science Data and the new SPSS,
London School of Economics and Political Science
1974 Organiser: SSRC Survey Unit seminar
Social Theory, Social Policy and Survey Research
London School of Economics and Political Science
1975 Organiser: BSA Quantitative Sociology Group Conference,
"Evaluation Research and the Measurement of Social Change"
Univ of Kent at Canterbury
1978-87 Member: Editorial Board "Social Indicators Research"
1978-82 Board of Directors, Research Cttee33 Logic and Methodology,
International Sociological Association
1986-89 Founder: (then Convenor of Judges' Panel) Mark Abrams Prize awarded annually for best publication linking Social Theory, Social Policy and Survey Research. (taken over in 1989 by the Social Research Association): member of judging panel for relaunch in 2004 (continuing).
Community activities
1966-67 Secretary: Manchester Campaign for Comprehensive Education
1974-78 Alderman: London Borough of Haringey.
Vice-chair, Governing Body, Wood Green School.
Member at various times of Education, Planning, Finance and General
Purposes Cttees and their sub-committees. Member of majority Labour
Party Policy Advisory Group throughout and of Leader's Conference on
the Rate 1977/88 (the year the cuts started). Also Vice-chair of London
On-line Local Authorities (LOLA) and Chair of the Research Working
Party which produced "Haringey Trends"
1978-83 Chair of Governors: Wood Green School
(11-18 mixed comprehensive, L B Haringey)
Trade Union activities
1971-73 AUT staff-side representative on Joint Negotiating Panel for
&1974-76 Conditions of Service in SSRC Research Units
1979-81 Chair: Natfhe Branch, Ladbroke House PNL
1985-89 Fund Organiser: PNL Emergency Fund
(for Natfhe members defending a High Court action brought by a
student who was a senior and active member of the National Front.)
Education
1951-60 High School for Boys, Scarborough, Yorkshire
1960-63 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1960-63 St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
Qualifications
1963 BA Hons: (Classics Part 1; Social Anthropology Part2)
Cambridge University (MA 1967)
1964 Diploma in Education, Durham University (DES # 63/13331)
