Contributors to Volume 9, Number 2
I am currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Family Research of the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. My PhD (University of Cambridge, 2001) explored the process of identity construction among young people in Europe. The project was funded by the European Commission with a Marie Curie TMR Fellowship, and in 2001/2002 was awarded a Ramon y Cajal Scholarship by the European Parliament. I have previously been a Research Assistant at the Social and Political Sciences Faculty of the University of Cambridge, at the Gender Institute of the LSE, and at the Institute of Psychology of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome.Alice Bloch
Alice Bloch is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, City University.Rajinder Dudrah
Email: a.bloch@city.ac.uk
Dr Rajinder Dudrah is a Lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of Manchester, prior to which he was Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Bollywood cinema, Black British representation, qualitative cultural and social research methods, and diaspora and globalisation. He is the founder and co-editor of the peer reviewed journal South Asian Popular Culture with Routledge publishers.Christine HineDepartment of Drama
University of Manchester
Email: rajinder.dudrah@man.ac.uk
Christine Hine joined the University of Surrey in 2003, having previously worked at Brunel University. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology, including ethnographic studies of scientific culture, information technology and the Internet.Ian McIntosh, Duncan Sim and Douglas RobertsonDepartment of Sociology
University of Surrey
Email: c.hine@surrey.ac.uk
Ian McIntosh is Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science, Stirling University. His research interests include young people's attitudes to welfare and the sociology of giving.Stanley RaffelDuncan Sim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science. His research interests involve the position of minorities within Scottish Society.
Douglas Robertson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science and researches into housing renewal and finance.
Stanley Raffel is a senior lecturer in sociology in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of the books Matters of Fact and Habermas, Lyotard, and the Concept of Justice and one of four authors of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry. Among his recent journal articles are 'If Goffman Read Levinas,' 'On Generosity,' and 'Teaching Social Rules: The Perspective of the York Project.'Peter Robbins
Peter T. Robbins is Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Water and Environment, Cranfield University. He is author of Greening the Corporation (London: Earthscan, 2001), as well as articles on corporate globalization. His current research, funded by the ESRC, examines the discourse of the GM crop debate.Manos Savvakis and Manolis Tzanakis
Manos Savvakis was born in 1973. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete. His main research interests primarily concern sociological theory, sociology of social exclusion, sociology of the body and sociology of health and illness. He has also participated as a researcher in a series of qualitative fieldwork and research projects based on participant observation and biographical-narrative method.Dr. Manolis Tzanakis was born in 1969. His PhD investigates the impact of psychiatric reform in Greece on the field of psychiatric everyday life. He is currently teaching Social Planning and Evaluation at the Technical-Educational University of Crete. His main research interests basically concern sociology of mental health and illness, sociology of everyday life and sociology of subjectivity. He has also participated as researcher in a series of qualitative filed work and research projects based on participant observation and biographical-narrative method.
Simon J. Williams and Sharon Boden
Department of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7ALEmail: s.j.willliams@warwick.ac.uk
Department of Sociology
University of Leicester
Leicester
LE1 7RHEmail: skb19@leicester.ac.uk
