Olga Belova (PhD) is a Lecturer in Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex. Her publications are in visual imagery, narratives, phenomenology of body and language, and ethics. She has been awarded British Academy Grants and is a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Also, she was recently a guest editor of the special issue on polyphony for Organization Studies and can be contacted by email at obelov@essex.ac.uk.
Steve Brown is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK and Visiting Professor at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, NL. His research interests are around the mediation of social remembering across diverse settings. These include commemoration of the 2005 London Bombings; personal, familial and institutional recollection of childhood traumas and challenges; self-archiving in virtual social networking. He is author of The Social psychology of Experience: Studies in Remembering and Forgetting (with David Middleton, 2005, Sage Publications) and Psychology without Foundations (with Paul Stenner, 2009, Sage Publications).
John Cromby is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University. Previously, he has worked in mental health, learning disability and drug addiction settings. He is interested in the way that social influence and the body come together to produce experience, and is exploring this interest with respect to such topics as emotion, ‘paranoia’ and ‘depression’.
Simone Dennis lectures in anthropology at the Australian National University, where she teaches courses on the anthropology of food and eating, humananimal relationships, and other specialist courses. Her interests are characterized by phenomeological intersections with anthropology, especially in the areas of food and eating, drugs and alcohol, and music; anthropology of humananimal relationships; anthropology of migration, memory, forgetting and remembering, and movement, especially among Persian women in Australia, and human relationships to place and environment. She is the author of two books: Police Beat, which deals with intersections of power and music in Australian domestic contexts, and Christmas Island: An Anthropological Study, which is the first ethnographic monograph produced of the Indian Ocean territory.
Miguel Domènech is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Autonoma University, Barcelona, where he coordinates a Group for Social Studies in Science and Technology. His research interests cohere broadly in the field of science and technology studies (STS) with a special focus on the interaction between technoscience and power relationships. Publications include: López, D. & Domènech M., (2008), ‘On inscriptions and ex-inscriptions: the production of immediacy in a home telecare service’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26(4) 663–675; Vayreda, A. and Domènech, M., (2007), Psicología e Internet, Barcelona: UOC; Vitores A. and Domènech, M. (2003), From Inhabiting to Haunting. New Ways of Social Control. In M. Hard, A. Lösch & D. Verdicchio (eds.), Transforming Spaces. The Topological Turn in Technology Studies.
Monica Greco is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Illness as a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics (Routledge 1998) and of several articles on different aspects of medical rationality. She is co-editor of The Body: A Reader (with Mariam Fraser, Routledge, 2005) and of The Emotions: A Social Science Reader (with Paul Stenner, Routledge, 2008).
Dave Harper is Reader in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London (UEL). Before he moved to UEL, Dave worked as a clinical psychologist in the National Health Service mental health services in the North West of the UK for nine years. His research interests are in critical psychology and social constructionist approaches in mental health, particularly in relation to psychosis. He is a member of the editorial collective of Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, and he is on the Editorial Boards of Subjectivity, the Annual Review of Critical Psychology and the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.
Katherine Johnson is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to theorizing self, identity and embodiment; gender, sexuality and Transgender Studies; critical and community psychology; qualitative research methods. She has recently published articles in Men and Masculinities and the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and she is currently working on a photographic research project with a group of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) mental health service users.
Bernd Kraeftner was trained as a medical doctor and worked as filmmaker and author. He is the founder of the transdisciplinary working group XPERI- MENT!. His research interest centres around scientific ideas at the messy intersection of the sciences, health care, politics, publics and the arts. He was principal investigator of various research projects funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science; the Wellcome Foundation, UK; the ZKM, Karlsruhe etc. He cocurated the science exhibition ‘the true/false.inc’, Vienna 2006. He is a lecturer at the Digital Arts class at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna.
Judith Kroell studied sociology and social anthropology at the University of Vienna. Since 1998 she has been part of the group XPERIMENT! and works and navigates between different (research-) worlds and activities. A lecturer at the Institute for Social Studies of Science at the University of Vienna, she was co-Curator of the science exhibition ‘the true/false.inc.’, Vienna 2006, and is co-initiator and current coordinator of the association ‘Researchers without borders’.
Joanna Latimer is Reader in Social Science at Cardiff University and Visiting Professor, University for Humanistics, Utrecht. She has published widely in medical and cultural sociology, particularly in relation to power and participation. Joanna is chair of the Ageing, Science and Older people Network and coconvenor of the Culture, Imagination & Practice Research Group at Cardiff, and is currently working on a number of research projects that investigate the relation between science, medicine, culture and conceptions of personhood, including a new book The Gene, the Clinic & the Family: diagnosing dysmorphology, reviving medical dominance. Joanna is associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization, and a member of the editorial board of The Sociological Review.
Hugo Letiche is Humanitas & Research Professor of ‘Meaning in Organization’ at the University for Humanistics Utrecht, The Netherlands, where he is Director of the part-time PhD programme. He is member of the RUOS ethics & organization research institute at Bristol Business School. He has lectured and/or visited amongst others at Lancaster University, Keele University, University of California at Berkeley, Durham University, University of the West of England, Sterling University, NMSU, Essex University. Organizational values and the ethics of care are his current research interests. ZonM W (Research Institution on Healthcare financed by the Dutch Ministry of Health) has funded his recent research. His book Making Healthcare Care came out in September 2008 (Charlotte NC: IAP). He has published in Organization, Organization Studies, Emergence/E:CO (Emergence, Complexity & Organization), JOCM (Journal of Organizational Change Management), BSR (Business Society Review), Culture & Organizations, Tamara Journal of Critical Postmodern Organizational Science, RSDG (Revue Sciences de Gestions), Critical Perspectives on International Business, Consumption Markets & Culture.
Daniel López is a researcher and assistant teacher in the Department of Psychology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His research work is currently focused on the consequences of ICT innovations in care and medical settings (telecare) both from an organizational point of view and from a subjective and intersubjective dimension. Selected Publications: López, D. and Domènech, M. (2008), ‘On inscriptions and ex-inscriptions: the production of immediacy in a home telecare service’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26(4) 663–675; López, D. (2006); ‘La Teleasistencia Domiciliaria como extitución. Análisis de las formas espaciales del cuidado.’ Published in F.J. Tirado i M. Domènech (ed.), Lo Social y lo Virtual. Nuevas formas de control y transformación social (pp. 60–78), EdiUOC: Barcelona; López, D. (2005). ‘Aplicación de la teoría del actor-red al análisis espacial de un servicio de teleasistencia domiciliaria’, in Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 44.
Rolland Munro is Managing Editor of The Sociological Review and Professor of Organisation Theory at Keele University. He has published widely on culture, power and identity and is internationally regarded for bringing new theoretical insight to the study of organization with his ethnographies of management practice. Writings on accountability, affect, bodies, cars, class, ethics, knowledge, landscape, language, money, polyphony, reason, time, wit, and zero, among other topics, have kept him at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary collaborations and have culminated in two forthcoming books, The Demanding Relation, which explores our entanglement with technology and Dividing Cultures, which illuminates the everyday divisions through which culture works us.
Fiona K. O'Neill recently gained her transdisciplinary PhD Uncanny Belongings: Bioethics and the Technologies of Fashioning Flesh, from Lancaster University. Her current research considers somatechnics (human-technology relations) with regard to bodied and embodied experiences and bioethical issues across standard and innovative medicine; specifically facial technologies including transplantation, the ‘belongingness’ of prostheses and bioengineered technologies and treatment-enhancement debates. She is a problem-based-learning tutor in the School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University; Member of the North West Research Ethics Committee and a freelance researcher / facilitator, presently engaging young people in bioethical issues.
Paula Reavey is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. Her research interests are around embodiment, social remembering and feminist theory. Recent work includes co-edited volumes: Memory Matters: Understanding contexts for recollecting child sex abuse (with Janice Haaken, Routledge, 2009) and New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Script and Dangerous Dialogues, (with Sam Warner, Routledge, 2003), as well as a number of articles on child sexual abuse, sexuality and embodiment, using discourse analysis, visual methods and memory work. She is Associate Editor of The Psychology of Women Section Review.
Trudy Rudge is Professor of Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery University of Sydney. She practised clinically in areas of burns care, plastic surgery, and community mental health before joining the ranks of nursing academe after a research appointment. She teaches and researches in the areas of embodiment and the social analysis of nursing practices. Currently she is researching the organization of nursing work, body shopping and intersections between technology and nursing care.
Michael Schillmeier teaches Sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Disability Studies and Empirical Philosophy at the Department of Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany. He received his PhD from Lancaster University, UK. He writes mainly on the material dynamics of societal ordering and change, cosmo-political events, on bodies/senses and dis/ability, on the societal relevance of objects and the heterogeneity of the social.
Floris Tomasini is a lecturer in Philosophy of Mental Health in the Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire and a Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC's Genomics Network, Lancaster University (CESAGen). He is interested in Continental approaches to the philosophy of mind, body and mental health. He often uses phenomenological approaches to investigate the challenge of psycho-emotional difference, writing about it from an embodied perspective, particularly on amputation, memory loss, grief, death, suicide and other subjects of this kind. His ambition is to understand existential challenges to what it is to be a human being, particularly through perspectives that challenge the ‘natural attitude’ of the human condition.
Dr Megan Warin is a social anthropologist at Durham University whose teaching and research interests coalesce around themes of embodiment, food, memory and migration. Her research into anorexia examines concepts of commensuality and relatedness; and her work on obesity with social epidemiologists in Australia bring class and gender to the fore of obesity studies. Her collaborative work with Simone Dennis investigates the phenomenological aspects of food, memory and trauma amongst the Persian diaspora in the UK and Australia. She is also investigating medical migration between Spain and the UK, examining how competing discourses of health care use, provision, and entitlement, metaphorically refer to wider issues concerning the permeability (or impermeability) of state borders, the endurance of national identities, and resulting difficulties in the construction of a European identity and citizenship.
Paul White is Research Associate within the Department of Primary Care & Public Health in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. He completed an ethnography of visibility, otherness and disposal (différance) within intensive care as part of a Ph.D. in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He is currently completing an investigation of the impact of incentivized patient service evaluations on General Practitioners in South Wales.
