Jack Barbalet

Who is Jack Barbalet?

Jack Barbalet is an Australian sociologist. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University and an Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. He has held appointments at the University of Papua New Guinea, the University of Adelaide, and the Australian National University. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, where he was Head of Department, and subsequently Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. In 2007 Barbalet was Scholar-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.