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Richard Jenkins

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Masters Sociology University of Oxford
Bachelors Sociology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Jenkins is a sociologist and retired academic. From 1995 to 2014, he was Chair in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Life Richard Jenkins was born in 1952 in Liverpool and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Cambridge, where he completed his doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1981 for his thesis "Young people, education and work in a Belfast housing estate". After working at the Social Science Research Council Unit on Ethnic Relations at Aston University, Jenkins took up a post at University College Swansea in 1983. He moved to the University of Sheffield in 1995 to take up the Chair in Sociology, which had been vacant since 1986. His work covered "the transition to adulthood, ethnicity and racism, nationalism, informal economic activity, the social lives of people with learning difficulties, and modern supernatural and witchcraft beliefs", supported by field work in the British Isles and in Skive in Denmark. He retired in 2014 but remains at Sheffield as an emeritus professor. In 2004, he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.

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Richard Jenkins 's Published Works

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Rethinking Ethnicity: Arguments and Explorations (1997) (487)
Weight‐related dosing, timing and monitoring hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency (2004) (228)
Disease associations with autoimmune thyroid disease. (2002) (145)
Growth hormone therapy for protein catabolism. (1996) (51)
Long-term treatment of acromegaly with the somatostatin analogue SR-lanreotide (1999) (50)
Acquired growth hormone resistance in catabolic states. (1996) (43)
Association of elevated insulin‐like growth factor binding protein‐1 with insulin resistance in hyperthyroidism (2000) (28)
8 Acquired growth hormone resistance in adults (1998) (28)
Uses of language (2006) (22)
The endocrine response to acute illness (1999) (22)
Acquired growth hormone resistance in adults. (1998) (19)
Self monitoring of blood glucose. (1993) (19)
The endocrinology of the critically III (1996) (15)
Rethinking Ethnicity Arguments and Explorations (1998) (14)
A Book for Reading (2006) (9)
ECGS by Example (2012) (7)
Lack of association between thyroid and adrenal nodules: A histological study (1999) (5)
The effects of dose, nutrition, and age on hexarelin-induced anterior pituitary hormone secretion in adult patients on maintenance hemodialysis. (1999) (4)
Russian VX (2020) (3)
Symbolic Violence and Social Reproduction (2006) (3)
Uncertainty and predictability (2014) (3)
Definition of growth hormone resistance (1998) (3)
Practice, Habitus and Field (2013) (3)
Beyond social structure (2016) (2)
A SIGN OF THE TIMES (2004) (2)
GROUPS AND CATEGORIES (2004) (2)
Boundaries and borders (2014) (2)
Fluoroacetate (2020) (2)
Gerontology on the World Wide Web (1999) (1)
Self monitoring of blood glucose. (1993) (1)
Pain during streptokinase infusion (1992) (1)
Hexarelin-stimulated growth hormone secretion in patients on maintenance haemodialysis (1998) (1)
Growth Hormone Secretagogues in Catabolic Illness (1999) (1)
The Use of Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I in Catabolic States (1997) (1)
CATEGORISATION AND CONSEQUENCES (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (1986) (0)
List of contributors (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
Use of Language (2013) (0)
Optimisation of Hydrocortisone Replacement Therapy (2002) (0)
Self-image and public image (2014) (0)
The effects of short-term growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 treatment on thyroid hormone concentrations in adults with primary hypothyroidism (1999) (0)
A Simplfied Protocol for Hydrocortisone Replacement Therapy in Patients with Adrenal Insufficiency (2003) (0)
Book Reviews (1990) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
Book Reviews (1990) (0)
Book Reviews (1986) (0)
'Race' and Ethnicity: Some Recent Publications (1985) (0)
DRUG-INDUCED FEVER (1999) (0)
Book Reviews (1988) (0)
SELFHOOD AND MIND (2004) (0)
Shorter Notices (1983) (0)
The Politics of Ethnicity (1987) (0)
Book Reviews (1987) (0)
KNOWING WHO’S WHO (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
ENTERING THE HUMAN WORLD (2004) (0)
Enquete: Danskhed.cpr (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (1991) (0)
Institutionalising identiﬁ cation (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Book Review: Structuration (2001) (0)
Shorter Notices (1984) (0)
Similarity and difference (2014) (0)

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