Jan Vranken

Jan Vranken (Belgium, 1944) is an Emeritus Full Professor of the University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen), at which university he spent his whole academic career (1968 to 2009). He received a PhD in political and social sciences (1977) with a thesis on 'Poverty in the Welfare State. A historical and structural interpretation'. He taught courses on General Sociology, Sociology of Inequalities, Social Problems, Urban Sociology and Poverty and Social Exclusion. He founded the Centre OASeS (Centre on Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City - www.oases.be). Since 2010 he is active as an independent researcher (CASUM).From 1992 to 2011 he edited the (Flemish) Yearbook on Poverty and Social Exclusion. After that, he embarked on a federal ‘Yearbook on Poverty’ (in Dutch and French).He coordinated many international projects, on poverty and on urban matters, such as a FP5-project on ‘Urban Development Programmes, Urban Governance, Social Inclusion and Sustainability’ (UGIS, 2000-2003) and a FP7-project on ‘The Role of FBOs in the field of social exclusion in an urban context’ (FACIT, 2008-2010).