Professor Alan Prout
Professor of Sociology and Childhood Studies
Warwick Institute of Education
Alan Prout is Director of the Institute of Education at Warwick University, which he joined as Professor of Sociology and Childhood Studies in 2005. He has researched and taught at a number of UK universities, including Cambridge, Keele and Stirling. He was also Visitng Professor at Roskilde University in Denmark. As Director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Programme “Children 5-16″, he led a large research initiative looking at contemporary childhood in Britain. He was editor of the FalmerRoutledge book series “The Future of Childhood”, as well as author of a (2005) book of the same name. Other publications include “Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood” (1990), “Theorizing Childhood” (1998) and “Hearing the Voices of Children” (2003).
