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We are a consortium
research centre whose main office is at the University of Edinburgh,
with partners
at the University of Aberdeen, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
Caledonian University, UHI Millennium Institute and the University
of Stirling. Each partner organisation may nominate two people
to become a CRFR Associated Directors. |
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Dr
Margaret Arnott
Glasgow Caledonian University |
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Dr Margaret
Arnott is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Glasgow
Caledonian University and
currently a Visiting Fellow of the Department of Government,
University of Strathclyde. Previously she
was a Research Fellow at both the Universities of Birmingham
and Edinburgh. Her research
interests include participation and involvement of young
people and children in school governance; education and
citizenship in Scotland and the politics of education
policy in post devolution UK. |
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m.arnott@gcal.ac.uk
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Professor
Kathryn Backett-Milburn
The University of Edinburgh |
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Kathryn Backett-Milburn is Professor of the Sociology of Families and Health
at The University of Edinburgh.
Kathryn's role at the University of Edinburgh spans
both the College of Humanities and Social Science and
the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Half
of her responsibilities lie in Public Health Sciences,
the other half in the School of Health in Social Science
where she is Head of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
in Health.
Kathryn previously worked at Research Unit in Health,
Behaviour and Change from 1985 onwards,
then as a Specialist Development and Evaluation Officer
at the Health Education Board for
Scotland from 1993-6, before returning again to work
in research at the University of Edinburgh.
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| Email |
K.Milburn@ed.ac.uk |
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www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk |
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Dr
Julie Brownlie
University of Stirling
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Dr
Julie Brownlie is a sociology lecturer at the University
of Stirling. She has taught social
theory, sociology of the body and research methodology
at undergraduate and postgraduate
level and her current research interests include sociological
work on the body, trust and
childhood. She has an MA in sociology and politics from
Edinburgh University, a CQSW from Aberdeen University
and a PhD from Stirling University. |
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julie.brownlie@stir.ac.uk |
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www.dass.stir.ac.uk |
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Philomena
de Lima
UHI Millennium Institute
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Philomena
authored the first publication in 2001 on rural minority
ethnic groups in Scotland,
‘Needs not Numbers’ and completed a mapping
exercise on rural ‘race’ issues in the British
context for the Commission for Racial Equality in 2002/3.
In 2005, in collaboration with the
National Centre for Migration Studies (Sabhal Mor Ostaig)
she completed a study on migrant
workers in the Highlands and Islands, and is currently
leading a mutli-disciplinary research team undertaking
a similar study in Grampian. Philomena is one of the Carnegie
UK Trust consultants
on the Rural Action Research Programme (RARP) and is responsible
for the ‘Building Inclusive Communities’ theme
which was launched in May 2006. |
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philomena.delima@inverness.uhi.ac.uk |
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Professor
Malcolm Hill
University of Strathclyde
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Professor
Malcolm Hill is Director of the Glasgow Centre for the
Child & Society, and was one
of the original members of the Centre for the Child &
Society at the University of Glasgow.
He has a degree in Geography, a Diploma in Applied Social
Studies and a PhD in Social
Science.He has been carrying out research and teaching
in Scotland for over 20 years, mainly
with respect to children and families. His studies have
covered such topics as: adoption, foster
care, children's services plans, children's well-being,
parenting, safeguarders and anti-social
behaviour. His recent books have dealt with effective
services, foster care services in Scotland,
child welfare policy, residential care, specialist foster
care and Scottish childcare practice. |
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malcolm.hill@strath.ac.uk |
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www.gccs.gla.ac.uk |
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Professor
Linda McKie
Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor
Linda McKie is currently Research Professor in Sociology,
Glasgow Caledonian
University. She previously worked at the Department of
General Practice and Primary Care,
University of Aberdeen: Senior Lecturer in Sociology of
Health & Illness.
Current research includes gender and violence (see http://www.grovenetwork.org)
and
gender, work and care (see http://www.crfr.ac.uk/Research/wlbfood.htm)
Recent
publications include Families Violence and Social Change
(Open University Press, 2005)
and Families in Society: Boundaries and Relationships
(edited with Sarah Cunningham-Burley,
Policy Press, 2005).
Linda is also a trustee for the British Sociological Association
(www.britsoc.co.uk),
Evaluation Support Scotland (http://www.evaluationsupportscotland.org)
and the Institute for Rural
Health (www.irh.ac.uk). |
| Email |
l.mckie@gcal.ac.uk |
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www.lindamckie.org |
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Dr
Lesley McMillan
Glasgow Caledonian University
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Dr
Lesley McMillan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Glasgow
Caledonian University. She
was previously Lecturer in Sociology at the University
of Sussex from 2002-7. She has a degree
in Sociology, an MPhil Social Science Research and a Postgraduate
Certificate in Higher
Education Teaching, Learning & Assessment (PGCHE)
from the University of Glasgow and
a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh. Her
research interests include the sociology
of gender and the sociology of health and medicine. In
particular: violence against women;
community and statutory responses to rape and sexual assault
including the problem of attrition; feminist social movement
organisations; women's health and sexual health; missing
persons; and
the sociology of trauma.
She is currently Principal Investigator on a large ESRC-funded
project on attrition in rape cases. |
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Lesley.McMillan@gcal.ac.uk |
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www.gcal.ac.uk |
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Dr
Suzi Macpherson
Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland |
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Between 2003
and 2008 Dr Suzi Macpherson worked at the University of
Stirling then at the
Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University.
In late 2008 Suzi joined the
Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland as a
Research Manager. With overarching
interests in equalities and social inclusion focused research,
Suzi's main research interests focus
on: gender inequality/occupational segregation, work-life
balance/flexible working, and social inclusion
and its links to specific social groups e.g. women, young
people, disabled people. |
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suzi.macpherson@equalityhumanrights.com |
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Dr
Gillian Munro
UHI Millennium Institute
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Dr
Gillian Munro is Deputy Director of Academic Studies at
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI. She is also
a lecturer on the BA (Hons) in Gaelic and North Atlantic
Studies, a post she has held since 2001
at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI. She was previously a
researcher at the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development
Research at Aberdeen University, and worked for Children
in Scotland, the national agency for voluntary, statutory
and professional organisations and individuals working
with children
and their families in Scotland. |
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sm00gm@groupwise.uhi.ac.uk |
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Dr
Samantha Punch
University of Stirling
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Most
of Samantha's research is with children and young people
in both majority and minority
world contexts. She recently completed a study on children's
experiences of sibling relationships
and birth order in Scotland, and with colleagues, is beginning
a new project which explores
food practices, power and identity for looked after Scottish
children. She is also carrying out
a follow-up study on young people’s livelihoods
in rural Bolivia and Argentina by tracking down
the children from her doctoral research ten years ago. |
| Email |
s.v.punch@stir.ac.uk |
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www.dass.stir.ac.uk |
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Professor
Janet Shucksmith
University of Teesside
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Janet Shucksmith
has a background in Education and Sociology, but has always
had a
strong research focus on the health and wellbeing of young
people and families and is
currently Professor in Public Health at the University
of Teesside, where she has established
the Centre for Health and Social Evaluation. Janet is
also an Associate Director of a new
Centre of Excellence in Public Health, established as
a collaborative endeavour between the
Universities of Newcastle, Durham, Teesside, Northumbria
and Sunderland in 2008, the
focus of which is on the translation of research evidence
into practice and policy. Her research
interests focus on child health and particularly on the
use of schools as sites for intervention
and surveillance on matters such as mental health, immunisation
and the measurement of
obesity. Interest in family relations with schools and
the sharing of responsibility for children’s
health issues is a natural consequence of this focus. |
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j.shucksmith@tees.ac.uk |
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www.tees.ac.uk |
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Professor
Claire Wallace
University of Aberdeen
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After
graduating with first a Bachelors and then a Doctoral
degree from the University of Kent,
Claire taught at Plymouth and then at Lancaster Universities.
During the early 1990s she helped
to set up the Sociology Department at the Central European
University, Prague before moving to
the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where she
later became Head of Sociology.
In the last five years she has been co-ordinating or participating
in research projects for the
European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme.
Current project: Workcare:
Social quality and the changing relationship between work,
care and welfare in Europe |
| Email |
claire.wallace@abdn.ac.uk |
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www.abdn.ac.uk |
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Dr
Daniel Wight
Medical Research Council
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Daniel
Wight heads the Sexual and Reproductive Health programme
at the Medical
Research Council’s Social and Public Health Sciences
Unit in Glasgow. He studied social anthropology at Edinburgh
University and, with a colleague, conducted a community
study
in central Scotland, focusing on working class culture,
unemployment, consumption and
masculinity. In 1990 he joined the MRC Medical Sociology
Unit to conduct a qualitative study
of young Glaswegian men’s sexual relationships and
then led an inter-disciplinary team to
develop and evaluate SHARE, a research-based school sex
education programme. Since
1997 Daniel has also been involved in basic and applied
sexual behaviour research in Tanzania,
in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and National Institute
of Medical Research, Tanzania. His research interests
include young people’s lifestyles,
parental influences on children, perceptions of risk,
and behavioural interventions and
evaluation, both in Britain and sub-Saharan Africa.
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danny@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk |
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www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk |
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Professor
Nick Watson
University of Glasgow
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1992-2004
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.
2004 – present
Director of Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research
and Professor of Disability Studies,
University of Glasgow.
Research interests revolve around disability and disability
theory. Previous research has
included work on disability and childhood, disability
theory, identity, the role of impairment,
care and personal assistance, disability and technology
and disability history. |
| Email |
n.watson@socsci.gla.ac.uk
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www.gla.ac.uk |
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