Jacqui Gabb and Elizabeth B. Silva
Jacqui Gabb
Jacqui Gabb is a senior lecturer in social policy at The Open University. Her main research interests are the study of families, personal relationships, intimacy, emotions, sexuality and gender. She also has particular interests in the development of interdisciplinary qualitative mixed methods approaches for researching families and personal relationships. She is currently undertaking an ESRC-funded study into understandings, meanings and experiences of long-term adult couple relationships. Her recent book Researching Intimacy in Families (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) won the the 2009 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial prize. She has published widely in International peer-reviewed journals in her research areas.
Faculty of Social Sciences
United Kingdom
Email: J.A.Gabb@open.ac.uk
Elizabeth B. Silva
Elizabeth Silva is a professor in sociology at The Open University. Her recent publications include Special Issue of Poetics on Cultural Capital: Histories, Limits and Prospects (Dec 2011), Technology, Family, Culture: Influences on home life (Palgrave 2010), Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy (Routledge 2010), Culture, Class, Distinction (Routledge 2009) and various journal articles on Bourdieu, cultural capital, gender, visual art and methods. Other of her books are Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood (Routledge, 1996) and The 'New' Family? (Sage, 1999).
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Open University
United Kingdom
Email: e.b.silva@open.ac.uk
