Nicholas Abercrombie (born 1944) is a British sociologist and retired academic.
Born in Birmingham in 1944, Abercrombie's father Michael and mother Jane (née Johnson) were academics.
He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1966.
[1] Abercrombie worked as a research officer in town planning at University College London from 1968 to 1970, when he joined Lancaster University as a lecturer.
In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Sociology at Lancaster, and in 1995 became Pro-Vice Chancellor.