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Abigail Knight
Abigail Knight is a Research Officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, where she has been carrying out research with children and families for several years. She has a background in history, social work and sociology and her research interests include the lives and experiences of disabled children, food and family life, notions of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ for children, and using historical and archival sources in sociological enquiry.
Thomas Coram Research Unit
27-28 Woburn Square
London
WC1H 0AA
United Kingdom
Email: a.knight@ioe.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/CFHH/37930.html
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Author 2 Julia Brannen is Professor of sociology of the family in the Institute of Education, University of London, Academician of Academy of Social Science and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen. She has carried out research on families and intergenerational relations and the work-family interface for over 30 years in both Britain and Europe. She has a special interest in methodology including mixed methods, comparative cross-national research, and biographical approaches. Author and editor of nineteen books, her current research in the Institute’s Thomas Coram Research Unit includes the study of children’s food practices in working families and the reuse of narrative data in the study of family practices under the National Centre of Research Methods NOVELLA node. She co-founded and co-edited the International Journal of Social Research Methodology for 17 years and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods.
WC1H 0AA
United Kingdom
Email: j.brannen@ioe.ac.uk
Rebecca O’Connell is a Senior Research Officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education. Her background is in Social Anthropology and her principal research interests lie at the intersection of care and work, especially foodwork and childcare, with a particular focus on the home, food practices and the ethics of care.
27-28 Woburn Square
London
WC1H 0AA
United Kingdom
Email: r.oconnell@ioe.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/research/TCRU_40.html