Jane Pulkingham is Professor of Sociology, currently serving as Senior Advisor (Academic Affairs) in the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic (2022 - ). From 2016 – 2021 she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at ´óÏó´«Ã½. Previously she was Associate Dean, FASS (2013-2015) and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (2003-2013).

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 (´óÏó´«Ã½) and Iglika Ivanova (CCPA-BC); former research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, B.C. Office; and advisory board member for Studies in Political Economy.

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).

PhD (Sociology and Social Policy), University of Edinburgh
MA (Sociology and Social Policy), University of Edinburgh

Books/Monographs

•  (Jane Pulkingham, Sylvia Fuller, Marina Morrow, Sylvia Parusel) (2016) First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition; ´óÏó´«Ã½; Single Mothers’ Alliance BC; Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC)
•  (editor) (2010) University of Toronto Press
•  (co-edited with Marjorie Griffin Cohen) (2009) University of Toronto Press
•  (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
•  ( Klein, S. and J. Pulkingham). 2008. Vancouver, BC: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office. (April). 68 pages. ISBN 978-0-88627-580-8
•  (co-edited with Gordon Ternowetsky) (1996) Fernwood Publishing
•  (co-edited with Gordon Ternowetsky) (1997) Fernwood Publishing

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles/Book Chapters

• Vilches, S. L., & Pulkingham, J. (2021). Using a Resistance Lens to Understand Performative Compliance of Low-Income Lone Mothers. Affilia, 37(3), 414-430. (Original work published 2022)
• Pulkingham, J. (2015). Social assistance in British Columbia. In D. Béland and P.M. Daigneault (eds.) Welfare reform in Canada: Provincial social assistance in comparative perspective. University of Toronto Press. pp. 143-160.