Lisa Adkins is a sociologist and academic.
As of 2018, she holds a professorship at the University of Sydney, where she is also Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
From 2015-2019 she was a Distinguished Professor in the Academy of Finland.
She has published in the fields of economic sociology and feminist theory, most recently on the welfare state and labour markets under finance capitalism and in post-industrial societies.
She is co-editor-in-chief of Australian Feminist Studies.