[2] Anthony Heath studied classics and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving a double first.
[3] After a spell in the Treasury he returned to Cambridge to study for a doctorate on social exchange theory with John H Goldthorpe as supervisor.
He has been closely associated with this tradition of research ever since, analysing large-scale social surveys to investigate 'real world' issues of class, gender and ethnic stratification.
Together with Roger Jowell and John Curtice, he directed the 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1997 British Election Surveys, focussing particularly on the topics of class voting, social change and the future of the left in Britain.
[10] He leads the Centre for social investigation, an interdisciplinary research group based at Nuffield College.