Barbara E. Adam, FAcSS, FLSW (born 3 May 1945) is a retired British sociologist and academic.
From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999.
[1][2] She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.
[2] In 1991, she was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize by the British Sociological Association for her monograph Time and Social Theory.
[1] In 2009, she was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS);[1] in 2014, Academicians were retitled Fellows (FAcSS) to bring the Academy of Social Sciences inline with other British learned societies.