Orly Benjamin (PhD Oxford 1995) is an associate Professor at the sociology department and at the gender studies program at Bar-Ilan University. Her work on the topic of women and precarious employment in Israel and on work on gender and job insecurity has been published in Symbolic Interaction and Community, Work and Family, Human Relations, Journal of Family Issues and Social Policy and Administration. Her other interests include family, intimate relations, sexuality and Adolescent girls. Her 2011 Palgrave-McMillan book with Michal Rom on Feminism, Family and Identities in Israel discusses Israeli married women's naming practices as reflecting the local political contestation of feminist understanding of family obligations. e-mail: orly.benjamin@gmail.com
Katy Bennett's research interests are in social and cultural geography with particular focus on issues of identity, emotion, home and community. Much of her research has examined how economic restructuring, regeneration and transformed landscapes impact on people's lives and her research practices are underpinned by growing lines of engagement between the social sciences and psychotherapeutic techniques. Her work has been widely published in many journals including Antipode, Emotion, Space and Society and Gender, Place and Culture. e-mail: kjb33@le.ac.uk
Allan Cochrane has researched and written extensively in the field of urban studies. Recent publications include ‘Understanding Urban Policy’ (Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and he was joint editor of a symposium (‘Where is urban politics?) published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research in 2014. He is currently a Leverhulme emeritus research fellow and is researching the emergence of a suburban region on the edge of the South East of England. e-mail: allan.cochrane@open.ac.uk
Kieran Connell's research interests are race and immigration in post-war Britain, cities, cultural studies and photography. Is recent publications include ‘Stuart Hall: reflections on a legacy’, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (2014) and ‘Dread Culture: music and identity in a British inner-city’ in E. Jackson and H. Jones (eds) Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: emotion and location (Routledge/Earthscan). e-mail: k.connell@qub.ac.uk
Anne Cronin is a Reader in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK. Alongside this project friendship, her core research interests lie in the dynamics of consumer capitalism and commercial culture, particularly the social influence of advertising and marketing practices. Her current research focuses on the shifting role of Public Relations and its impact on social values, the new public sphere, and what comes to be understood as legitimate ‘publics’. e-mail address: a.cronin@lancaster.ac.uk
Simon Duncan is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bradford. He has particular research interests in families, relationships, and personal life. Recent research considers living apart together (LAT), agency and bricolage, the changing nature of personal life between the 1950s and today, and the gap between assumptions and the realities of teenage motherhood. He is currently undertaking research on marriage and weddings, together with Julia Carter. He has previously researched on European, regional and local gender geographies, on local social relations and the local state, and on comparative housing provision in Europe. e-mail: s.s.duncan@bradford.ac.uk
Miriam Glucksmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has longstanding interests in work, employment and gender, especially restructuring, and connections between different forms of labour. Her books include Women on the Line (1982, 2009), Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain (1990), Cottons and Casuals; the gendered organisation of labour in time and space (2000), and the jointly edited A New Sociology of Work? (2005). In 2007 she completed a research programme on ‘Transformations of Work’ as an ESRC Professorial Fellow. She was funded between 2010 and 2014 by the European Research Council to comparatively research ‘Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour’. Webpage: http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/people/staff/profile.aspx?ID=130 e-mail: glucm@essex.ac.uk
Malcolm James is Associate Director of Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, and a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at University of Sussex, UK. His research focuses on the intersection youth, race and urban mutliculture. His forthcoming book, published by Palgrave, New Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation in a Global City, provides a detailed analysis of the transformation of urban multiculture in Britain. e-mail: Malcolm.James@sussex.ac.uk
Hannah Jones' research interests are multiculture, diversity and inequality, local government policy-making and migration policy. Her publications include Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change: uncomfortable positions in local government (Policy Press 2013) and Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: emotion and location (Edited with E. Jackson 2014 Routledge/Earthscan). 0065-mail: h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk
Einat Lavee is Sociologist and Social Psychologist, graduated from Bar-Ilan University. Her areas of interest lie on the fields of welfare state, mothering and poverty. Her published articles deal with the ways in which the macro-level institutions, discourses and social dictations shape the individual daily experience in the local level. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. e-mail: Einat@stanford.edu
Vik Loveday is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her previous work has explored working-class identities, cultural memory, affect and embodiment. She is currently researching ‘casualisation’ in the English higher education sector. e-mail: v.loveday@gold.ac.uk
Giles Mohan's research areas are transnational migrations, African diasporas and the role of China in Africa. His recent publications include Chinese Migrants and Africa's Development: New Imperialists or Agents of Change? Zed Books (2014); ‘Queuing up for Africa: the geoeconomics of Africa's growth and the politics of African agency’ International Development Planning Review (2015). e-mail: giles.mohan@open.ac.uk
Janice McLaughlin is Head of the Sociology Subject Area at Newcastle University, her research examines how childhood disability or illness is framed from within the worlds of medicine, community and family. This work is explored via a range of qualitative research approaches that draw from narrative and visual methodologies and ethnography. Her books include Families Raising Disabled Children, co-authored with Dan Goodley, Emma Clavering and Pamela Fisher and published by Palgrave. Her next book will be Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Difference and Emerging Identities, co-authored with Edmund Coleman-Fountain and Emma Clavering, to be published by Routledge in 2016. e-mail: janice.mclaughlin@newcastle.ac.uk
Sarah Neal's research interests are ethnicity, race, multiculture, belonging, community and place. Her recent publications include ‘Race, Community and Conflict: fifty years on’, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2015) and ‘Multiculture, urban middle class competencies and friendship practices in super-diverse geographies’, Social and Cultural Geography 2013). She is Co-Editor of Sociology. e-mail: sarah.neal@surrey.ac.uk
Caitlin O'Neill Gutierrez was Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded study at the University of Kent. She is currently Evidence and Research Officer at The Children's Society. e-mail: caitlin.oneill.g@gmail.com
Miri Song is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. She has just completed a Leverhulme funded study of multiracial people and their experiences as parents. Her other research interests include ethnic and racial identifications, immigrant adaptation, and racisms. e-mail: a.m.song@kent.ac.uk
Kathryn Wheeler is Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University. Before this, she worked with Prof. Miriam Glucksmann on an ERC programme of research, exploring recycling and household ‘consumption work’. She has previously published on the subject of Fairtrade consumption, and has recently completed her first book, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice? (2012). e-mail: Katy.Wheeler@open.ac.uk
