Davide Arcidiacono is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Catania. His research interests concern the digital transition and the impact of the platform economy on organizations, work and consumption. He was a member of the Expert Group on the European Directive on Platform Work. Among his recent publications: Arcidiacono D (2024) Industry 4.0 an Platforms: The New Convergence, in AAVV, Disruptive Digitalization and Platforms, Routledge; Arcidiacono D and Piccitto G (2023) Assessing inclusivity through job quality in digital plat-firms. Social Inclusion 11(4).
Franziska Baum is a Researcher from Germany with a background in both sociology of labour, and vocational logistics. From 2020 to 2024 she was part of Care Transformations Project at the University of Hamburg, Currently, she is affiliated with the Technical University of Chemnitz (Sociology, specialization in Technology). Her scholarly inquiry primarily addresses the distinctive characteristics of self-employment within ostensibly precarious labour markets. Through the lenses of subjectivation analysis, labour and care theory, she examines the processes of subjectivation, orientation, and meaning-making among care workers. Her research critically investigates the evolution of new care practices, offering nuanced insights into the lived experiences of those navigating these complex and evolving labour landscapes.
Sarah Baumgartner is a former Research Assistant in Human Geography at the University of Graz, Austria. She was part of the research project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of Labour and Intersectional Inequalities in Care Services (TICS)” till September 2024. She graduated in October 2024 in with a master degree in environmental system sciences with an emphasis on human geography. In her thesis, she questioned the dominant narrative of Graz’s city park in order to get a closer look on its continuing (post)colonial entanglements.
Sybille Bauriedl is Professor of Integrative Geography at the Europa Universität of Flensburg, Germany. Her research and publications focus on local energy transition, smart urbanism and climate coloniality. She is Member of the Academy for territorial development in the Leibniz association and the Academy’s interdisciplinary international network on “Gender and Spatial Transformation”. Bauriedl edited together with Strüver A (2022) Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities. Transcript.
Alessio Bertolini, PhD in Social Policy, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Fairwork, based at the Oxford Internet Institute, has longstanding expertise in comparative labour market policies and regulations of casual and non-standard workers and a keen interest in the impact of digitalisation and more broadly, technological change, on working conditions and labour standards.
Sheida Besozzi is Research Associate at Hegoa, Institute for Development Studies and International Cooperation of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics. Her research focuses on transnational migration, diaspora studies, resistance studies and gender and feminist studies, with a special interest in the Middle East. She has recently published the article “Did a flower grow in hell? Reading the modern history of Iran through the nonviolent participation of women in political struggles” in the journal Relaciones Internacionales.
Francesco Bonifacio is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. His research interests centre on the digital transformation of work and organizations, with a main focus on digital platforms. Latest publication: Bonifacio F (2024) Imbricated to platforms: the (re)production of differences in food-delivery work. Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies 15(1): 21–38.
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network, the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative and co-leads the Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation project. Dr Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on the health workforce, particularly from a gender lens. She was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in September 2016. Recent publications include Corrente M, Park J, Akuamoah-Boateng H, Atanackovic J and Bourgeault IL (2024) Work & life stress experienced by professional workers during the pandemic: a gender-based analysis. BMC Public Health 24(1): 1441; Coates A, Mihailescu M and Bourgeault IL (2024) Emergency responses for a health workforce under pressure: lessons learned from system responses to the first wave of the pandemic in Canada. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 39(3): 906–916.
Tom Brass formerly lectured in the Social and Political Sciences Faculty at Cambridge University, and directed studies in SPS for Queens’ College. He carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India during the 1970s and 1980s, and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies (1990–2008). His books include New Farmers’ Movements in India (1995), Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues (1997), Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour (1999), Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000), Latin American Peasants (2003), Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011), Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014), Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017), Revolution and Its Alternatives (2019), Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism (2021), Transitions (2022), Interrogating the Future (2024), and Critiques: In Defence of Development (2025).
Héctor Carrillo is Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. His past research and teaching have centred on the sociology of sexuality, immigration, and health. His most recent book, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men, received awards from three sections of the American Sociological Association: Latina/o Sociology, International Migration, and Sex and Gender. For this book, Carrillo also received the 2020 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. He currently conducts research on the social significance of genealogy.
Andrea Ciarini is an Associate Professor of Economic Sociology, in the Department of Social Science and Economics of Sapienza University of Rome. He is coordinator of the master’s degree program in “Project management and evaluation of social services”. His main research interests are in the fields of comparative welfare studies.
Diego Coletto, PhD in Economic Sociology, is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology and Sociology of Labour at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). He teaches Sociology of development. His research topics are: Informal economy; Sociology of development; Employment relations; Urban ethnography; Sociology of work; Street-level bureaucracy. He participated to various international and national research projects. He published two books and various articles in international and national journals, as well as chapters in edited volumes on the topics of the informal economy, unemployment, street level bureaucracy and sociology of work.
Metehan Cömert is a Research Assistant of Public Finance at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. The researcher earned his PhD entitled, “Four Essays on Fundamental Issues of Public Finance: Fiscal Anthropology, the Gift, the Commons, and the Meci”. His research interests circle around fiscal anthropology, political economy, and anti-capitalist movements. He currently focuses on placing public finance theory in conversation with an anthropological perspective and thus paving the way to the world of ethnographic fieldwork for the discipline of public finance.
Abbey Davis, BKin, is a PhD student in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include how the social context of our lives determine our health outcomes; in particular, housing, employment, and socioeconomic status. Abbey’s PhD focus is on the health of aging manual workers in manufacturing settings.
Luisa De Vita is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology, at the Department of Social Science and Economics of “Sapienza” University of Rome. She directs the PhD program in Applied Social Sciences and joined several research projects at national and international level. Her current research concerns inequalities, gender policies, diversity management, labour market and working conditions, with a focus on self-employment, women’s entrepreneurship, and career paths.
Mikel Barba is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His main research focuses on topics related to the incorporation of migrants into the education system and the labour market. He has recently published the articles “Remittances, Gender, and Global Care Chains: The Case of the Latin American Population in the Basque Country” and “Political Participation, Discourse Coalitions, and Intergroup Relations in Diverse Spaces: The Case of the San Francisco Neighbourhood in Bilbao” in the journal Migraciones.
Iraklis Dimitriadis, PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research, is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Work and Economy in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore. He teaches Sociology of Migration. In recent years, he has developed research on digital labour platforms and informal work, migration and asylum governance, as well as on migrant labour, paying particular attention to undeclared employment. His scientific articles have been published in prestigious international journals (e.g. Work, Employment and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies). He is the author of the book Migrant Construction Workers in Times of Crisis published by Palgrave Macmillan.
María-José Establés is Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). She holds a PhD in Communication (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain). Her research interests include transmedia literacy, fan and audience studies, and media representation in television series. She has published her work in several indexed journals such as Media & Communication; Politics & Governance; Learning, Media & Technology; Profesional de la Información; Revista Latina de Comunicación Social; Cuadernos.info; Revista de Comunicación e Historia y Comunicación Social.
Khaoula Ettarfi, on the Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Human Geography, University of Zurich, is part of the labour geography research group whose research focuses on the socio-spatial dimensions of labour, particularly on the current platformization of labour in the care market. I am also interested in engaging in debates that draw on feminist political economy and anti-racist scholarship.
Kami Fletcher is an Associate Professor of African Diasporic History and Coordinator of Africana Studies at Goucher College. She teaches courses that centre the African experience throughout the Diaspora unpacking social and cultural history all at the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her research centres on African American burial grounds, late 19th/early 20th century Black female and male undertakers, and contemporary Black grief and mourning. She is the co-editor of both Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed and Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries from Antebellum to the Post-Civil Rights Era and a host of other articles and book chapters. Currently, Dr Fletcher is working on a manuscript that historicizes African American death care workers in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
Konstantinos Floros is in the Business IT Department, IT University of Copenhagen, Floros’ research interests concern Platform Labour Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Migration Studies and Labour Geography, with a specific focus on labour market inequalities, platformization of labour, and workers’ collective resistance practices. He recently published: Floros K (2024) Rethinking algorithmic management in minor key: the case of housecleaning platform labour in Denmark. Platforms & Society.
Ara Francis is an Associate Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross. She is a microsociologist interested in how large-scale historical processes inform selfhood and lived experience, especially in the intimate relational contexts of family and friendship.
Vasilis Galis is Associate Professor in the Business IT Department, IT University of Copenhagen. His research lies at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Critical Data Studies, and Security Studies. His most recent publication is Galis V and Karlsson B (2024) A world of Palantir – ontological politics in the Danish police’s POL-INTEL published in Information, Communication & Society.
Amaia Garcia-Azpuru is Professor and Researcher in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her research spans various fields of economics and sociology, integrating knowledge of labour markets, macroeconomics and microeconomics with international migration flows. She has recently published the articles “Remittances, Gender, and Global Care Chains: The Case of the Latin American Population in the Basque Country” and “Political Participation, Discourse Coalitions, and Intergroup Relations in Diverse Spaces: The Case of the San Francisco Neighborhood in Bilbao” in the journal Migraciones.
Stefanie Gerold, PhD, works as a Researcher and Lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment. She gained her PhD in Economics and Social Sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research focuses on platform labour, sustainable work in the context of a social-ecological transformation, as well as post-work and critiques of work.
Katarzyna Gruszka, PhD, is a postdoc researcher at Malmö University, at the Data Society research program at the Faculty of Technology and Society. She holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on platform-mediated household work, platform labour, platform capitalism, and (in)visible labour in digital contexts.
Mar Guerrero-Pico is Tenure-track Lecturer in Fan Studies, Transmedia Storytelling, and Media Literacy in the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona, Spain. She has worked as a research assistant for several national and European projects focused on exploring the transmedia skills and informal learning strategies of adolescents through their daily media practices. Her research interests include fan cultures, (trans)media education, television shows, and platformisation. Her articles have been published in journals such as New Media and Society, Social Media + Society, Learning, Media and Technology, and International Journal of Communication, among others.
Pamela Hopwood, MSc, is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She has experience in research with gig workers working for food delivery and ride-hail platforms. Her area of expertise is occupational health and work conditions for precarious workers, with particular interest in unregulated healthcare occupations. Recent publications include Hopwood P, MacEachen E, McAiney C and Tong C (2022) Personal support work and home care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare Policy 18(2): 61. DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2022.26970.
Veda Hyunjin Kim is an Assistant Professor at Ohio Wesleyan University who studies crimes of the powerful in the colonial modern world. His recent publications include Ida B. Wells-Barnett as an Anticolonial Theorist on Crime and Punishment, which appeared in the British Journal of Sociology.
Timo Korstenbroek is a PhD candidate at VU University Amsterdam’s Department of Sociology where he has been involved in the Refugee Academy and the Co-Creation for Inclusive Knowledges Lab. In his research he focuses on creating deep(er) understandings across “empathy walls” that impede different (groups of) people from understanding each other. Hereby, he particularly aims to critically unpack and transform the unequal hierarchies embedded within dominant public discourse by combining more traditional qualitative research methods (e.g. interviews, focus groups) with creative and artistic research methodologies involving storytelling and collaborations with theatre makers. Recent publication: Why we are angry@ them: A virtual ethnographic journey across the empathy wall towards deeper understandings of Dutch radical-right anger. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 11(4): 459–488.
Janne Martha Lentz is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz and she works within the research project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of Labour and Intersectional Inequalities in Care Services (TICS)”. Her research is rooted in feminist geographies and focuses on the impact of digitalisation on housework, especially how labour platforms mediate domestic work. Her analysis delves into how these changes influence the (de)valuation of domestic labour under patriarchal capitalism.
Ellen MacEachen, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Dr MacEachen’s research examines the design and performance of work and health systems to identify how they can be improved and adapted to fast changing economic, social and technological environments of our global economy. She specialises in qualitative research methods and her research is informed by a critical sociological lens. Recent publications include MacEachen E, Hopwood P and Crouch MK (2023) Retirement pension poverty among injured workers with long-term workers’ compensation claims. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 34(4): 753–771. DOI: 10.1017/elr.2023.43; MacEachen E, de Rijk A, Dyreborg J, et al. (2022) Laws, policies, and collective agreements protecting low-wage and digital platform workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 32(3): 201–212. DOI: 10.1177/10482911221133796.
Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda, PhD, Researcher and Associate Professor, Sociology Program Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. His area of research is the social studies of science and technology. He is currently Director of the Digital and Inventive Methods Laboratory (DiSoR-LAB) at Universidad del Rosario. Recent publications: Maldonado Castañeda O and Sanchez Vargas DY (2024) The challenges for fair work in digital platforms in Colombia: a critical exploration on embodied justice and responsibility. In: Humanistic Management in the Gig Economy. London: Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-59944-6; Maldonado Castañeda O and Arroyave C (2024) Promesas algorítmicas: una exploración a los imaginarios sociotécnicos de la Inteligencia Artificial en el cuidado de la salud. In: Urueña R and Angel N (eds) Derecho, poder y datos. Aproximaciones críticas al derecho y las nuevas tecnologías. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes; Mantilla-León LC and Maldonado Castañeda OJ (2024) Porque pagan entonces quieren tener un robot, y nosotras de robot no tenemos nada: arreglos intersubjetivos tecno-sociales del trabajo doméstico mediado digitalmente. Revista de Estudios Sociales 89: 61–80. DOI: 10.7440/res89.2024.04.
Laura Clemencia Mantilla-León, Mg, Researcher and Professor Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Her research interests are focused on understanding the relationship between technology, gender, work, and health. She is currently a Public Policy Analyst for Derechos Digitales NGO. Recent publications include Mantilla-León LC and Maldonado Castañeda OJ (2024) Porque pagan entonces quieren tener un robot, y nosotras de robot no tenemos nada: arreglos intersubjetivos tecno-sociales del trabajo doméstico mediado digitalmente. Revista de Estudios Sociales 89: 61–80. DOI: 10.7440/res89.2024.04.
Carrie McAiney, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and the Schlegel Research Chair in Dementia at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging. Dr McAiney’s research involves working collaboratively with persons living with dementia, family care partners, providers, organizations, advocacy groups, policy makers and other researchers to co-design and evaluate interventions and resources aimed at enhancing wellbeing for people impacted by dementia. Recent publications include Conway E, MacEachen E, Middleton L and McAiney C (2023) Use of adapted or modified methods with people with dementia in research: a scoping review. Dementia: International Journal of Social Research and Practice 22(8): 1994–2023. McAiney C, Conway E, Koch M, Middleton L, Dupuis S, Keller H, Dupuis K, Lee L, Fehr P, Beleno R, Kuepfer J and Boger J (2021) In their own words: how COVID-19 has impacted the well-being of persons living with dementia in the community. Canadian Journal on Aging 40(4): 543–553 (special issue on COVID-19 and Aging in Canada).
Christiane Meyer-Habighorst is a PhD candidate in Labour Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, and is involved in the trinational project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of Labour and Intersectional Inequalities in Care Services (TICS)”. Her research interests are rooted in feminist geographies and encompass care work, urban spaces, (in)justice, and (methodological) questions of intersectional inequalities. In her current work, she examines the commodification of domestic care work in Switzerland, with a particular focus on the role of digital labour platforms and their potential impact on this sector.
Freeden Blume Oeur is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. He is a former public school teacher in Philadelphia and a lifelong student of the liberal arts. His research engages feminist and humanist insights to enrich a Sociology in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, one committed to understanding the persistence of anti-Black racism today. This general compass is attuned to analyzing childhood in historical and contemporary contexts.
Barbara Orth is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography at Free University (FU) and a PostDoc at the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Research in Berlin, Germany. Her dissertation work explores the nexus between immigration regulation and the emergence of digital labour platforms, particularly in the realm of reproductive services.
Ivana Pais is Professor of Economic Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on platform forms of organizations and digital labour. Latest publication: Pais I and Marcolin A (2024) Digital platforms in the Italian domestic care sector: the emergence of an unprecedented corporate logic and its implications for workers’ social protection. International Labour Review 163: 397–416. DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12433.
Francisca Pereyra is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento (Argentina). She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex (United Kingdom). Her research interests lie in the area of work, gender and the care economy. She has conducted extensive research on the determinants of care workers’ labour conditions with a particular focus on domestic workers. She is currently analyzing experiences, opportunities and challenges posed to low-income women by the growth of digital labour platforms in Argentina. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and work documents on these topics.
Anna Pillinger is a PhD student and research assistant at the Sociology Department of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and did her MA in the field of Science and Technology Studies. She works on topics concerning the digitalization of care and domestic work and, more recently, on digital infrastructure projects of the European Union.
Martina Piña is a predoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF-Barcelona, Spain). Her main research interests are focused on learning and literacy in the use of platforms and digital resources. She has participated in projects related to the use of technologies in platform labour, formal education, and cyberbullying. She has published in journals such as Culture and Education, Journal of Communications, and Convergence.
Lorena Poblete is a Senior Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the École en Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris France. She was visiting scholar at Princeton University, McGill University, Université de Nantes, Université de Lille 1, Frei Universitat Berlin and Europa-Universitat Viadrina. She’s currently an Alexander von Humboldt fellow.
Elena Ponzoni is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at VU Amsterdam. In 2017, she co-founded the Refugee Academy with Professor Halleh Ghorashi to create spaces that center the perspectives and knowledge of refugee communities in both societal and academic dialogues. She also serves as the director of the Co-Creation for Inclusive Knowledges Lab at the Faculty of Social Sciences (VU Amsterdam). Her research explores how academic work can help uncover and transform implicit mechanisms of exclusion and inequality. She uses participatory methods of knowledge co-creation that prioritize the lived experiences of the communities involved. She collaborates with refugee advocates to amplify their work in knowledge production and policymaking and work with youth on articulating experiences of in-betweennees. Also, she investigates the role of artistic practices and inter-generational solidarity in fostering democratic resilience. Recent publication: Ponzoni E, Fiorito TR and Ghorashi H (forthcoming) Urban solidarities in late modern times: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Urban Studies.
David Purucker is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, with interests in political sociology and social theory. His most recent publication is “Reviving the mass organization for social movements? The meaning of membership in the Democratic Socialists of America”, published in Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements.
Jyoti Puri is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She has published extensively on sexuality, the state, nation, and gender, and is the author of three books and co-editor of three special issues. She is currently working on a Guggenheim-funded project, Migrant Death: Race, Religion, and Belonging, as well as an anthology on anticolonial, decolonial, and postcolonial sociologies. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Simon-Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASA’s Sexualities Section.
Mê-Linh Riemann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, working within the project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of labour and intersectional inequalities in care services (TICS)”. She previously held a position at the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven. She has a special interest in biographical research methods, economic crises, migration, precarious work and the platform economy. Her work has appeared in Labour and Industry, Research in the Sociology of Work, Leuven University Press, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Contemporary Social Science and Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia.
Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez: STS and CSCW Researcher. Master’s student in science and technology studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research focus on how technology shapes and mediate relations within immigrant Latinx communities, gig workers and women. Rodriguez IJ, Petterson A, Doggett O and Chandra P (2024) El costo de la independencia: Latino house-cleaners in technology-mediated labour markets. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8: CSCW2, Article 460: 1–32. DOI: 10.1145/3686999; Petterson A, Rodriguez IJ, Doggett O and Chandra P (2024) Networks of care in digital domestic labour economies. In: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ′24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 530: 1–16. DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642200.
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is an Assistant Professor at Department of Sociology at University of California Berkeley and an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include political and historical sociology as it applies to colonialism, indigenous studies, and memory. She is the author of the recently published Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023), She has published widely on settler colonialism, political sociology, and the Palestinian citizens in Israel in Sociological Theory, Politics and Society, Theory and Society, Current Sociology, and The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. She is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, Palestinian American Research Center, Fulbright, and the Council for Higher Education. Sabbagh-Khoury is a member of the General Assembly and Academic Research Committee of Mada al-Carmel—Arab Center for Applied Social Research, she is also a member of Academic for Equality and in May 2021 she founded the organization emergency line for students in the Israeli universities.
Karin Schwiter is an Assistant Professor of Labour Geography at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. In 2016, her research group received the Swiss Award for Research on Education for their mixed-methods study on occupational gender segregation. She co-edited the Handbook Feminist Geographies (2021, with Budrich publishers, in German) and Home Care for Sale: The transnational Brokering of Senior care in Europe (2024, with Sage Studies in International Sociology). Her research interests include feminist approaches to work and labour with a focus on care, migration and digitalisation.
Sarah Staubli is a Research Assistant in Labour Geography at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and part of the trinational project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of Labour and Intersectional Inequalities in Care Services (TICS)”. In addition, she is currently completing her Master’s degree in Human Geography, in which she is specifically interested in intersectional perspectives. In her Master’s thesis, she is looking at a Zurich cleaning platform cooperative and examining how the cleaners perceive their work there.
Anke Strüver is Professor for human geography with a focus on urban studies at the University of Graz (Austria) and head of the RCE Graz-Styria, Centre for Sustainable Social Transformation. Her research focuses on embodied sociospatial relations in urban everyday life, especially along care, health, active mobility and digitalization.
Nicola Techel is a Research Assistant at the department of Geography at the Europa-Universität Flensburg and part of the trinational project “Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of Labour and Intersectional Inequalities in Care Services (TICS)”. Currently, she is completing her Master’s degree in Transformational Studies, where she focusses on the entanglements of public institutions, especially museums, in the socio-ecological transformation.
Hendrik Theine, PhD is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business and postdoctoral fellow at the Media, Inequality and Change Center, University of Pennsylvania. His research revolves around three core themes: (1) digital capitalism and the transformation of socio-economic relations, (2) climate-social policies and discourses of climate crisis, and (3) media dynamics, economic inequality and redistribution policies.
Ania Tizziani is a Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), and a professor at the Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Université Paris 1—Panthéon Sorbonne, France. She was visiting scholar at University of Richmond, University of Georgia and Université Paris 1—Pantheón Sorbonne. Her current research focuses on gender and class segregation in the labour market, informality, and the impact of public policies.
Funda Ustek Spilda is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. She previously held research posts at Fairwork based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, London School of Economics and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is interested in studying intersections of technology and labour, from intersectional perspectives including gender and migration.
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Professor of Sociology and El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at University of Connecticut. He works in the fields of Puerto Rican/Latinx Studies, race, ethnicity, (im)migration, and racialized sexualities. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles/chapters/essays based on these; has co-authored the book Race and Sexuality, co-edited, in English, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, and in Spanish, Travar el Saber, on education and trans people in Argentina. A US-trained Latina/o studies scholar, he branched out to Latin American studies, currently collaborating with the Grupo de Trabajo Feminista y Queer de las Américas, which seeks to shift power in knowledge production and circulation to and from the Américas.
Basak Yanar, PhD, is a Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and an assistant professor in the division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr Yanar’s research focuses on migration, work, and occupational health and safety (OHS). She studies the working conditions of newcomers to Canada and the role played by employers, the settlement sector and the OHS prevention system in promoting safe work integration of recent immigrants and refugees. Her current program of research explores workplace health and safety within the context of linguistic and cultural diversity and how employers can foster inclusive safety practices. As a social scientist with disciplinary training in organizational behaviour, Yanar is also interested in the psychosocial work environment and the ways organizations can promote healthier and safer workplaces. Recent work includes Yanar B, Nasir K, Massoud A, Usmani S, Premji S and Smith PM (2022) Employers’ experiences with safe work integration of recent immigrants and refugees. Safety Science 155: 105856. Premji S, Kosny A, Yanar B and Begum M (2020) Tool for the meaningful consideration of language barriers in qualitative health research. Qualitative Health Research 30(2): 167–181. Yanar B, Lay M and Smith PM (2019) The interplay between supervisor safety support and occupational health and safety vulnerability on work injury. Safety and Health at Work 10(2): 172–179.
Ather Zia, PhD, is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (June 2019) which won the 2020 Gloria Anzaldua Honorable Mention award, 2021 Public Anthropologist Award, and Advocate of the Year Award 2021. She has been featured in the Femilist 2021, a list of 100 women from the Global South working on critical issues. She is the co-editor of Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak (Women Unlimited, 2020), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (Upenn, 2018), and A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins, 2019). She has published a poetry collection “The Frame” and another collection is forthcoming. Ather’s ethnographic poetry on Kashmir has won an award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region. Ather is also a co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.
