Alan Warde, FBA, FAcSS (born 18 August 1949)[1] is a British sociologist and academic.
Born in 1949, Warde was educated at Downing College, Cambridge,[1] graduating with a BA in 1971.
[2] He then completed an MA at Durham University and carried out doctoral studies at the University of Leeds;[1] his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Ideology, strategy and intra-party division in the British Labour Party, 1956-74".
[3] Warde was appointed to a lectureship at Lancaster University in 1978 and was promoted to a readership there in 1994, before becoming a full professor in 1996.
[4] In 2011, he had also been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.