Dod Forrest
Dod Forrest is a community education field worker and contract
researcher. His main areas of research interest lies in participatory
action research and the promotion of social justice evaluations of
community and youth work. Dod Forrest's work background is welfare rights,
youth work, social work education and community development. He has been a
field worker since the mid-1970sand is an active trade unionist and Unison
shop steward. He has also been writing for adult education and community
development journals since the 1980s.
Marion Gibbon
Marion Gibbon has worked in community development overseas for
10 years and has experience of monitoring and evaluating health projects.
She has published in Healthcare for Women International (1998) and
participatory Learning and Action Notes (1998 and 1999). Her PhD (1999)
utilised a Participatory Action Research Framework to evaluate a process
to improve women's health and wellbeing through empowerment. She has
recently completed an evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre for Lambeth,
Southwark and Lewisham Health Action Zone.
Gill Hubbard
Dr Gill Hubbard, is a Research Fellow at the Research Unit in
Health and Behavioural Change, University of Edinburgh for a Joseph
Rowntree Foundation funded project exploring the social exclusion and
inclusion of young people in rural areas of Scotland. She is a
sociologist who has also worked as a teacher in secondary schools and
colleges.
John Jackson
John A. Jackson , Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin;
Formerly Professor of Sociology , Trinity College Dublin; Professor of
Social Theory and Institutions, Queens University Belfast,; Senior
Lecturer and Reader, University of East Anglia; Lecturer, University of
Sheffield; Research Worker, University of Liverpool
Ilpo Koskinen
The writer has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Helsinki. Currently, he is employed by the Department of Product and
Strategic Design at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, where he
teaches methodology and studies ways in which users interact with
interactive digital images. He is also involved in a study about how
industrial designers work with engineers and marketing in product
development.
Manussos Marangudakis and William Kelly
Dr. Manussos Marangudakis is a lecturer of sociology at Magee
College, University of Ulster. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of the
series of symposia on Ethnic Minorities and Political Action in Post-Cold
War Europe (Xanthi, Western Thrace). He current research deals with
Christian and Muslim ethnic relations in Western Thrace.
Dr. William Kelly is the research officer, University of Ulster, Center
for Cultural Heritage. His research interest are mainly in Irish history
and Irish-British political and social relations. He is currently working
on a volume of essays analysing myth and identity formation in Ulster
since the 17th century.
T Marcus and D Manicom
Prof. T. Marcus and Ms D. Manicom both lecture at the
University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)-South Africa in the Department of
Sociology. Prof. T. Marcus' research interests are Rural Development and
the Sociology of Childhood. Ms D. Manicom's research interests are
Curriculum Development in Sociology, Race and Gender Consciousness and
Research Methodology.
Jennifer Platt
Jennifer Platt is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Sussex. Her most recent book is A History of Sociological Research
Methods in America, 1920-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her
other current research is on the history of the British Sociological
Association and of the International Sociological Association; she also
has interests in intellectual migration and its consequences. This work
on the labour market for sociologists continues with study of the careers
and decisions of individuals.
Supriya Singh
Dr Supriya Singh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for
International Research on Communication and Information Technologies
(CIRCIT) at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is a sociologist studying
money and technology. Her focus has been on how individual consumers and
small businesses use money and communication channels within their social
and cultural frameworks. Her latest book is entitled Marriage Money: The
Social Shaping of Money in Marriage and Banking (1997) published by Allen
& Unwin.
Tracey Warren
Tracey Warren lectures in Sociology at the University of
Sheffield. Her research interests lie in the areas of gender relations,
labour markets and working time in Europe. Her doctoral thesis Female
part-time employment: a comparison of Britain and Denmark (1998) was
based on an analysis of gendered work and employment patterns in two
societies once characterised by the most similar levels of female
part-time working in Europe. Previous to this, she worked in rhus,
Denmark analysing Danish womens employment patterns. Before moving to
Sheffield, she worked at the Policy Studies Institute, mainly researching
into the area of income and wealth. She is currently preparing papers on
the gender and ethnic variations in income levels and assets accumulation
in Britain.
Emma Wincup
Emma Wincup is a lecturer in criminology and criminal justice
in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Her main research
interests include gender, crime and criminal justice and substance misuse.
Recent publications include Access to Sociology: Crime, Deviance and
Social Control (Hodder and Stoughton 1999), Qualitative Research in
Criminology (Ashgate 1998) and Doing Research on Crime and Justice (Oxford
University Press 2000).
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