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Biographical Notes
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First woman professor at Bradford University (1973). Married Dr. Vic Allen (reader in Industrial Relations at Leeds Uni.) Educated at the London School of Economics (LSE). Sheila graduated from LSE with honours in 1953. She stayed there for a year to do anthropological research and then continued her research in South-East Asia for two years. She then returned to LSE to work as senior research assistant to the Sociology Research Unit. She lectured at Birmingham and Leicester Universities before coming to work at Bradford University in 1966 as Senior Lecturer. In 1971 she became Reader. A year later she was awarded over £21,000 by the Social Science Research Council for her research into Youth and Work: Differential Ethnic Experience. Then in 1973 she was appointed Professor of Sociology, becoming the University’s first woman professor. This made her only the 46th woman professor in the country. Her research areas include the development of the trade unions; the young worker’s selection and attitude to work; the role of the immigrant worker and the comparative position of women in societies.
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