About Jack Barbalet
- Professor of Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, Hong Kong Baptist University, from October 2011.
- Professorial Fellow, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney, from August 2009
- Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Sydney (2008-2009).
- Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester (1999-2008).
- Earlier appointments in sociology at the Australian National University, in politics at the University of Adelaide and in economics at the University of Papua New Guinea.
- Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
- In 2007, Scholar-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.
- Research associate with SociNova, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, involved with an international and inter-disciplinary project on emotions in economic decision making.