Emeritus Professor Sol Encel

Honorary associate

• Graduated from the University of Melbourne, B.A. (Hons), 1949
  M.A. 1952, Ph.D 1960 (Melbourne);
• Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1960;
• Reader in Political Science, Australian National University, 1956-1966;
• Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 1960;
• Professor of Sociology, University of NSW, 1966-1990;
• Visiting Fellow, University of Sussex, 1968, 1973, 1978;
• Visiting Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984;
• Visiting Professor, Vassar College, 1984;
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London,
  1988;
• Emeritus Professor, 1990 to date;
• Honorary Research Associate, Social Policy Research Centre, University of
  NSW, 1991 to date.

• Science, technology and society;
• Social status of women;
• Social forecasting;
• Political sociology;
• The Australian Jewish Community;
• Sociology of ageing.

• A study of home ownership among older people, under contract to the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute;
• Employment and unemployment among older workers;
• The political sociology of the Australian Jewish Community (ARC project, jointly with Associate Professor Suzanne Rutland);
• Relations between Government and the Non-Government welfare sector.

• Cabinet Government in Australia, 1962 and 1974;
• Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction, 1965, 1970, 1977, 1984;
• Equality and Authority, 1970;
• Women and Society, 1974;
• The Art of Anticipation, 1975;
• Decisions, 1981;
• Immigration and Ethnicity in the 1980s, 1985;
• The Japanese Connection, 1987;
• Out of the Doll's House, 1991;
• Ageing and Social Policy in Australia, 1997;
• Continuity, Commitment and Survival, 2003;
• Longevity and Social Change, 2006.

• Australian Social Policy Conference (biennial at University of NSW);
• Annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association;
• Congresses of the International Sociological Association (quadrennial, with inter-congress meetings of research committees);
• World Congress of Gerontology (quadrennial);
• International Federation on Ageing (quadrennial);
• Australian Association of Jewish Studies (annual);
• Australian Association of Gerontology (annual).

• External examiner for PhD theses (usually 2-3 per year);
• Referee for ARC publications in the field of ageing;
• Editorial Board of the Australian Journal for Third Sector Research;
• Referee for the Australasian Journal on Ageing;
• Member, NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, 1993-1997, and 2006 to date;
• Member, National Health and Medical Research Council, 1991-1994;
• Committee Member, Australian Association of Gerontology (NSW).