Jane Pulkingham

Jane Pulkingham is Professor of Sociology, currently serving as Senior Advisor (Academic Affairs) in the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic. From 2016 – 2021 she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at SFU. Previously she was Associate Dean (2013-2015) of FASS and served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 2003-2013. She completed her PhD in sociology and social policy at the University of Edinburgh.

Her research examines the institutional context of inequality and public policy in work and employment, social welfare policy and family law arenas. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology;  research collaborator with the SSHRC-funded ($2.5 million) Partnership Grant Understanding Precarity in British Columbia (2021-2027; Co-principal investigators – Kendra Strauss (SFU) and Iglika Ivanova (CCPA-BC); research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, B.C. Office; and advisory board member for Studies in Political Economy, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council-funded Partnership Grant Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector.

Co-author of more than 60 publications, published work includes four edited books related to social welfare and policy making in the Canadian context:  Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth (University of Toronto Press. 2010),  Public policy for women (University of Toronto Press, 2009), Remaking Canadian Social Policy (Fernwood Press, 1996), and Child and Family Policies (Fernwood Press, 1997). Her work is also published in journal venues core to her disciplinary and sub-disciplinary fields, including Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, British Journal of Sociology, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Canadian Journal of Public Policy, Citizenship Studies, Critical Social Policy, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Studies in Political Economy, Work, Employment and Society, and Violence against women. She is also a contributor to impactful policy reports including Living on Welfare in BC (with Seth Klein CCPA-BC, 2008).

Books

• Walking the Line to Put Their Families First: Lone Mothers Navigating Welfare and Work in British Columbia (Jane Pulkingham, Sylvia Fuller, Marina Morrow, Sylvia Parusel) (2016)
  First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition; Simon Fraser University; Single Mothers’ Alliance BC; Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC)
• Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth. (editor) (2010) University of Toronto Press
• Public Policy for Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues (co-edited with Marjorie Griffin Cohen) (2009) University of Toronto Press
• Precarious & Vulnerable: Lone Mothers on Income Assistance. (Penny Gurstein and Michael Goldberg with Sylvia Fuller, Paul Kershaw, Jane Pulkingham and Silvia Vilches). 2008. Burnaby, BC: Social Planning & Research Council of BC. (Dec). 23 pgs. ISBN 978-09809157-8-5
• Living on Welfare in British Columbia: The Experiences of Longer-term "Expected to Work" Recipients. ( Klein, S. and J. Pulkingham). 2008. Vancouver, BC: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office. (April). 68 pages. ISBN 978-0-88627-580-8
• Remaking Canadian Social Policy: Social Security in the Late 1990s.(co-edited with Gordon Ternowetsky) (1996) Fernwood Publishing
• Child and Family Policies: Struggles, Strategies and Options (co-edited with Gordon Ternowetsky) (1997) Fernwood Publishing

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Recent publications include articles in journals such as Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Critical Social Policy, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, and Citizenship Studies.