Dr Andrew Dunn is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of Rethinking unemployment and the work ethic: beyond the “quasi-Titmuss” paradigm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). […]
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Ruth Patrick
Dr Ruth Patrick is a lecturer in Social Policy & Social Work at the University of Leeds, and is the author of ‘Living with and responding to the ‘scrounger’ narrative in the UK: exploring everyday strategies of acceptance, resistance and deflection’ in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 24 (3) (2016). Ruth has also worked for the Fabian Society, the IPPR, and Shelter. […]
Luke Gittos
Luke Gittos is a solicitor practising criminal law, and author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans (Societas, 2015). He is also the legal editor for Spiked-online. […]
Hannah Bows
Hannah Bows is Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Durham having previously been a doctoral researcher at its Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse, examining rape and serious sexual assault against people aged 60 and over. She teaches modules at undergraduate level including criminal law and gender violence. […]
Michael Fitzpatrick
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is a general practitioner. He has written on a wide range of medical and political subjects, including epidemics, addictions and health scares for both medical publications and the mainstream media. He is the author of The Tyranny of Heath (2002). Michael’s book MMR and Autism: what parents need to know (2004) put forward a comprehensive appraisal of vaccine-autism theories. This was followed in 2009 […]
Ellie Lee
Ellie Lee is Reader of Social Policy at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the evolution of family and health policy. She also the Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies as a research network concerned with the way “parenting” has been constructed as a social problem in Britain and in many other countries and she frequently discusses her research in the […]
Yunas Samad
Yunas Samad is Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Bradford, and author of the report ‘Muslims and Community Cohesion in Bradford’ (Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, 2010), and co-edited the books Social cohesion and social change in Europe (Routledge, 2015), and Culture, Identity and Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain (Research in Ethnic Relations) (Avebury, 1996). […]
Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy and Director of Research, University of Huddersfield. Prior to joining the University, he worked as a regional manager for a national voluntary youth work organisation and as a regional youth policy and campaigns officer for the government’s Commission for Racial Equality. Paul’s research focuses mainly on state policies around young people and multiculturalism, racism, community cohesion, and […]
Adrian Hart
Adrian Hart is a former teacher turned writer, researcher and filmmaker. He’s a veteran of anti-racism campaigns in the late 1980s, and his more recent involvement with anti-racist projects in schools led to his controversial report The Myth of Racist Kids – anti-racist policy and the regulation of school life (The Manifesto Club, 2009). The report was soon followed by Leave Those Kids Alone – how official […]
Rachel Holmes
Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry (2007), The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman (2008), and Eleanor Marx: A Life (2015). She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanensi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire. […]