Chris Allen
Chris Allen is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable
Urban and Regional Futures at the University of Salford, having previously held
lecturing posts at the University of Salford and Bradford and research posts at the
Universities of Cardiff and Manchester. He has previously published in peer-
reviewed journals in the fields of sociology, social policy and urban studies.
Cherylynn Bassani
Cherylynn Bassani is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of
Calgary. She has written articles on Japanese family forms and changing family,
social capital theory in the Western and non-Western context, and the well-being of
children. Her dissertation cross-nationally examines children?s academic well-being
in Japan, Canada, and the United States through the analysis of social capital in the
home, school and community.
Bum Soo Chon, George Barnett and Young Choi
Bum Soo Chon
Bum Soo Chon (Ph. D., State University of New York at
Buffalo, 2002) is a senior researcher at the Munwha
Broadcasting Company, Seoul, Korea. His research
interests concern cultural aspects of globalization
and structures of international communication network.
ccblade2@yahoo.co.kr
George A. Barnett
Department of Communication
School of Informatics
State University of New York at Buffalo
George A. Barnett received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of
Illinois, in Sociology, and his Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State
University (1976). Currently, he is Professor and Chair of Communication at
the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written extensively on
organizational, mass, international and intercultural, and political
communication, as well as the diffusion of innovations. His current research
focuses on international telecommunications and its role on social and
economic development and globalization.
Young Choi
Young Choi (Ph.D, State University of New York at
Buffalo) is associate professor at Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies at Seoul, Korea, where he teaches
telecommunications and online journalism. His current
research interests include new media technology and
public journalism in online environment.
Stephen Gorard
Stephen Gorard is a Professor at the Cardiff University School of Social
Sciences, having previously been a secondary school teacher/manager and adult
education lecturer. His current research interests include the impact of market
forces on schools (<www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/markets>),
underachievement (e.g. 'The
differential attainment of boys and girls at school', BERJ, 27, 2, 125-139),
teacher supply and retention (e.g. ELWa grant 2002), widening adult
participation in learning (e.g. 'Creating a Learning Society', Policy Press,
2002), the role of technology in lifelong learning (e.g. 'The Information Age',
University of Wales Press, 2002), informal learning ('Adults-Learning@home',
ESRC grant 2001-2004), the role of targets (e.g. 'Privileging the visible',
BERJ, 28, 3, 2002), and developing international indicators of inequality
(<www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/equity>). His
main task at present is to direct the
Research Capacity-building support network for the ESRC Teaching and Learning
Research Programme (<www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/capacity>). He
is an advocate of the third
methodological movement, involving the judicious use of mixed methods.
Stephen Hicks and Katherine Watson
Dr Katherine Watson works in the Department of Health Care Studies at
Manchester Metropolitan University. Her main teaching and research interests are the
application of cultural and media studies to the field of health and nursing practice;
lesbian, gay, feminist and queer studies; and qualitative methodologies. Her PhD is
concerned with analysing the discourses of homophobia and their consequences for
communicative action. She is currently co-editing a text with Martin King called
Representing Health: Discourses of Health & Illness in the Media (Palgrave,
forthcoming).
k.watson@mmu.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Hicks works in the School of Community, Health Sciences & Social Care
at Salford University, where he is postgraduate course leader for the Post-Qualifying
Child Care award. He is currently carrying out a project called 'Queer Genealogies'
which investigates ideas about contemporary forms of lesbian and gay parenting. He
is a founder member and the Chair of Gay & Lesbian Adoption & Foster Families
(GLAFF), and with Janet McDermott he co-edited Lesbian & Gay Fostering &
Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary (1999, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers).
s.hicks@salford.ac.uk
Myra Hird
Myra J. Hird is a lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast.
She is the author of several articles on materiality, sexual difference, intersex and
transgender, including 'Intersex: A Test-case for Psycho-analytic Theory?' in Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society; 'Gender's Nature: Intersexuality,
Transsexualism and the 'Sex'/ 'Gender' Binary in Feminist Theory; 'For a Sociology of
Transsexualism' in Sociology; 'Unidentified Pleasures: Gender Identity and its Failure'
in Body and Society; 'Out/perfoming Our Selves - Invitation for Dialogue' in
Sexualities; and is completing a sole-authored book on the relation of intersex and
transsex with theories of sexual difference.
Ashwin Kumar
Ashwin Kumar is a PhD student at the College of Social & Health
Science, School of Nursing, Family & Community Health, University of Western
Sydney, Australia. His doctoral research, ?The lived experience of using alternative
medicine?, is a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study into the use of
alternative medicine for individual health care. His main research and teaching area is
the Sociology of Health and Illness. He may be contacted at: ashwin@justinternet.com.au
Carole Truman
Carole Truman is lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science
at Lancaster University. She has a long-standing interest in the relationship between
social research and socially marginalised groups. She has conducted a wide range of
experience in policy and applied research with a particular emphasis on participatory
and emancipatory research approaches. In addition to authoring refereed publications
in the fields of health and social care, she has successfully co-edited three books,
including Re-thinking Social Research (Avebury 1994) and Research and Inequality
(UCL 2000). Her current research interests relate to the process and practice of user
involvement in health and social care addressing areas such as user participation in
service provision, mental health and health needs assessment.
Malcolm Williams
Malcolm Williams is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University
of Plymouth. His books include Making Sense of Social Research (Sage, 2003);
Science and Social Science (Routledge 2000); Knowing the Social World (edited with
Tim May, Open University 1998) and Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research
(also with Tim May, Routledge 1996). His empirical research interests include
housing need and UK internal migration.
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