Contributors
- Contributors
Marian Barnes is Professor and Director of Social Research in the Institute of Applied Social Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Marian previously worked at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield. Much of her own research over the last 15 years has been on user involvement and user self organization in the context of health and social care. She is author of Care, Communities and Citizens (Longman, 1997), co-author of Taking over the Asylum: Empowerment and Mental Health (Palgrave, 2001), and of numerous reports and articles on user involvement, citizenship and public participation. Her forthcoming publications include Caring and Social Justice (Palgrave, 2005) and, with Linda Bauld, Michaela Benzeval, Ken Judge, Mhairi Mackenzie and Helen Sullivan, Building Capacity for Health Equity (Routledge, forthcoming).
Solveig Bergman is Doctor of Social Sciences and has worked as researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. In November 2003, she became Director of the Nordic Institute of Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK) in Oslo. Her publications focus on women's movements in Finland and Germany, new social movements in the Nordic countries, women and politics, and the institutionalization of women's studies in the Nordic countries.
Jean Carabine is Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, UK. She has written extensively on historical, contemporary and methodological aspects of the intersection between social policy and sexuality discourses. Her most recent research is concerned with the dynamic making of selves, performativity and self-regulation in professional, political and ‘personal’ contexts. Her most recent publications include Sexualities: Personal Lives and Social Policy (Open University/Policy Press, 2004). She is also an editor of the journal Critical Social Policy.
Nickie Charles is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is currently working on an ESRC-funded project, Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relations, which is a restudy of the classic study of the family and social change undertaken in the early 1960s by Colin Rosser and Chris Harris at Swansea. She has published widely on gender, her most recent book being Gender in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2002), and has particular interests in feminist social movements and their influence on policy change.
Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She is author of Affluent Workers Revisited (Edinburgh University Press, 1992), Social Class in America and Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), Sociological Research Methods in Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999, with Sue Heath), and Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Kids Get Good Jobs (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Alexandra Dobrowolsky is the author of The Politics of Pragmatism, Women, Representation and Constitutional Change (Oxford, 2000) and has recently published Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives (Palgrave, 2003) with Vivien Hart. She has written numerous articles and chapters relating to issues of representation, representational forms, mobilization, social policy and democracy. She is currently involved in two research projects, one that outlines and examines the consequences of shifting state forms and social policy in Canada and Britain, and another that explores changes to security, immigration and citizenship in light of the rise of the security state. She is also at work on an edited collection that deals with gender, migration and citizenship and their local, national and transnational connections.
Anna Gavanas received her B.A. from Göteborg University, Sweden and her PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University, Sweden. She has taught at Swedish Universities and lectured widely in the US and Europe on issues of masculinity, family, marriage, and sexual politics. She has published Fatherhood Politics in the United States: Masculinity, Sexuality, Race and Marriage (University of Illinois Press, 2004). While working on this book, she was part of the cross-disciplinary project “Fathers and the State,” based at Stockholm University's Center for Comparative Gender Studies. This project resulted in the edited collection Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2002), to which she is a contributor. In 2001–02, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Gavanas is currently based in the ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care...
