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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Alan Warde is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines intersecting food science, sociology, political science, epidemiology, tourism, leisure and hospitality management, and general health professions. Their work often explores themes related to culinary culture and tourism, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, wine industry and tourism, homelessness and social issues, health disparities and outcomes, alcohol consumption and health effects, and social and cultural dynamics.

Warde has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Behavioural Change and the Temporal Ordering of Eating Practices: A UK-Spain Comparison (2020) published in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Society and Consumption (2022) in Consumption and Society
  • Domestic Hospitality: As a Practice and an Alternative Economic Arrangement (2020) in Cultural Sociology
  • Situated Drinking: The Association Between Eating and Alcohol Consumption in Great Britain (2023) in Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • Change and Stability in British Drinking Practices and Culture Between 2009 and 2019: A Longitudinal Latent Class Analysis of Drinking Occasions (2023) in SSM - Population Health

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with the most frequent including Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans (24 publications each), John Holmes, Alessandro Sasso, and Mónica Hernández Alava (8 publications each).

Warde's work has been published in numerous venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Manchester University Press eBooks (5), followed by Consumption and Society (2), and then single contributions to the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Cultural Sociology, and SSM - Population Health.

Among their book publications, two editions titled Everyday Eating (2024) were published by Bristol University Press eBooks, and The Social Significance of Dining Out (2020) was published by Winchester University Press.

Alan Warde has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. This fellowship situates them within a community of scholars contributing to social science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Consumption and Theories of Practice

    Alan Warde

  • Culture, Class, Distinction

    Tony Bennett;Michael Savage;Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva;Alan Warde

  • Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure

    Alan Warde;Lydia Martens

  • Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity

    Michael Savage;Alan Warde

  • After taste: Culture, consumption and theories of practice

    Alan Warde

  • Consumption, Identity-Formation and Uncertainty

    Alan Warde

  • Understanding Cultural Omnivorousness: Or, the Myth of the Cultural Omnivore

    Alan Warde;David Wright;Modesto Gayo-Cal

  • Consumption and the Problem of Variety: Cultural Omnivorousness, Social Distinction and Dining Out:

    Alan Warde;Lydia Martens;Wendy Olsen

  • The Practice of Eating

    Alan Warde

  • Contemporary British Society

    Nicholas Abercrombie;A. Warde;R. Deem;Sue Penna

  • Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture

    Alan Warde

  • Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues.

    Mike Savage;Alan Warde;Fiona Devine

  • Gentrification as Consumption: Issues of Class and Gender:

    A Warde

  • Trust in Food: A Comparative and Institutional Analysis

    Unni Kjærnes;Mark Harvey;Alan Warde

  • Eating Out: List of illustrations

    Alan Warde;Lydia Martens

  • Changes in the Practice of Eating A Comparative Analysis of Time-Use

    Alan Warde;Shu Li Cheng;Wendy Olsen;Dale Southerton

  • Class and Cultural Division in the UK

    Brigitte Le Roux;Henry Rouanet;Mike Savage;Alan Warde

  • Convenience food: space and timing

    Alan Warde

  • Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender

    Paul Bagguley;Jane Mark-Lawson;Daniel Shapiro;John Urry

  • The changing practice of eating: evidence from UK time diaries, 1975 and 2000.

    Shu-Li Cheng;Wendy Olsen;Dale Southerton;Alan Warde

  • Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society

    Alan Warde;Alan Beardsworth;Teresa Keil

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett Western Sydney University
John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby City, University of London
Petra Meier
Petra Meier University of Glasgow
Rosemary Deem
Rosemary Deem Royal Holloway University of London
John Holmes
John Holmes University of Sheffield
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Andrew Sayer
Andrew Sayer Lancaster University

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