Tony Bennett FAcSS FAHA (born 1947) is a British sociologist who has held academic positions in the United Kingdom and Australia.
[2] In the 1970s and early 1980s, Bennett taught sociology at the Open University in the United Kingdom, as a staff tutor and then as chair of the Popular Culture course.
[1][2][3] In 1998 he returned to the Open University, where he was Professor of Sociology and a founding director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC).
[1][2][3] In 2009 he returned to Australia as research professor in Social and Cultural Theory at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University,[2] while remaining a Visiting research professor at the Open University and an associate member of CRESC.
[2][3] Bennett's 1992 essay, "Putting Policy into Cultural Studies", was seminal.