Alice Sullivan

Alice Sullivan is a British sociologist and Professor of Sociology at University College London.

Career Sullivan received her bachelor's in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford and her master's and doctorate in sociology form Nuffield College, Oxford. She co-edited Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader with Selina Todd in 2023. She was featured in the 2025 John Maddox Prize shortlist and is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Sullivan has written that the conflation of gender and sex in the 2021 United Kingdom census was a harmful product of what she describes as an "explicitly anti-scientific" "postmodernist project". and by academics from the University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh who criticized the study's approach to categorizing sex and gender and research ethics. In December 2025 Sullivan threatened to sue the University of Bristol after a talk presenting the Sullivan Review was disrupted by protesters.

Works Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, co-edited with Selina Todd (London: Routledge, 2023) Sullivan, A. (2001). Cultural capital and educational attainment. Sociology, 35(4), 893-912.