Emeritus Professor Sol Encel

s.encel@unsw.edu.au

Graduated from 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 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 A/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

• 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)

• External Examiner for Ph.D 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, 1994-1997
• Member, National Health and Medical Research Council, 1991-1994
• Committee Member, Australian Association of Gerontology (NSW)