Sally Tomlinson (PhD,M.Soc.Sci. FRSA, Hon D.Litt) has been teaching , writing and researching for over forty years in the areas of race, ethnicity and education, special education and education policy.
She has held Professorial Chairs at the universities of Lancaster, Wales (Swansea), Goldsmiths, London University, where she was also Dean of Education and a Pro-Warden. She has held many other posts, serving as referee and advisor for academic research projects and on Journal Boards, and has examined 146 PhD’s/DPhil studies to date.
As an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow she has had grants from the Leverhulme Foundation for research into lower school attainers, and from the African Educational Trust (AET) for work on literacy and Numeracy in Somaliland, being a Trustee of AET for twenty years and serving as the first woman Chair of Trustees. As Emeritus she has been an Associate in the Sociology Department, University of Warwick, served for 8 years on the Council of the University of Gloucestershire, four years on the Council of the (now) Warwickshire group of FE Colleges, and is currently on the management board of an Alternative Provision (AP) School. She has published some 30 books and 250 articles, chapters and research papers (see below for recent books) and in 2024 became a Great Grandmother.
Recent publications
- 2025. Education and Race from Empire to Multiracial Britain. Bristol University Press (forthcoming.November)
- 2023. (With John Rex) Colonial Immigrants in a British City: a class analysis. (1979 London Routledge and Kegan Paul: republication in Routledge Library editions)
- 2022. Ignorance: The Five Giants. Newcastle on Tyne, Agenda Publications
- 2020. (with Danny Dorling) Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of Empire. London Biteback Publications. (2nd edition)
- 2019. Education and Race from Empire to Brexit.Bristol. Policy Press.
- 2017. A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education. Routledge London (translated into Japanese and Korean)
- 2014. The Politics of Race, class and special education, London. Routledge
- 2013. Ignorant Yobs? Low attainers in a global knowledge econmy. London Routledge.
A full list of her publications can be found at www.stomlinson.net