Jessie is a Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide on a project working with 10-14 year olds (and their families) exploring their perceptions of their own and other bodies in the context of gender, class and obesity. The project is also looking at the ways in which young people engaged with a
government funded obesity prevention program.Jessie is based in the Discipline of Gender Work & Social Inquiry (GWSI), but will also have feet in the The Lifecourse and Intergenerational Health Research Group (LIGHt), and the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender.

Susanne qualified as a nurse in Germany, working in the German and Swiss healthcare systems
as a nurse on surgical (septic) wards, including intensive care units, and as a nursing manager
and educator in various hospitals.

Currently holding an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Feb 2008 - Jan 2009), her research interests
relate to family - particularly children and young people - and patient's experiences of an critical
illness event, the recovery from critical illness from a patient's and a family's perspective, nurses'
perception of families in acute or primary care, sociology of families, sociology of childhood and
qualitative research methods.

Susanne has recently finished my PhD thesis 'The emergence of negotiated family care in
intensive care' at the University of Edinburgh.

Alison is a Lecturer in Social Policy within the School of Social and Political Science
at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the labour market and
family life, social inequality, quantitative and comparative research methods. She is
currently co-investigator on ESRC research grant "Welfare Markets and Personal
Risk Management in England and Scotland". She is Programme Director for
the MSc in Social Research.

Julia is a Senior Research Fellow who is responsible for developing, co-ordinating and supervising
an integrated programme of research in the area of health-related risk and lifestyle.

Her main substantive area of interest and expertise is in the field of diabetes (type 2 and type 1)
and specific interests include:

* Patients' experiences of diabetes and its management; lay understandings of health and illness
* Patients' and health professionals' experiences of health service delivery)
* The evaluation of complex health interventions for diabetes and other multi-factorial conditions
* The experiences and health care needs of patients from minority ethnic groups
* Patients' and health professionals' experiences of participating in RCTs
* Qualitative methods; longitudinal qualitative approaches
* Hospice and palliative care

Billy is a Psychology lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and have recently begun to work
on interpersonal relationships. He is particularly interested in the processes that assist and
hinder relationship such as empathy, attraction, attachment, and projection. Billy has devised
various tests of interpersonal perception, and employ video microanalysis techniques to analyze interactions e.g. between strangers and romantic partners.

Billy is principal investigator of an interdisciplinary project employing video microanalysis,
conversation analysis, and interpretative phenomenological analysis to study the development
of listening skills in counselling students. He is currently setting up a study to evaluate the effectiveness of video-conferencing use in healthcare for consultation and diagnosis.

Ruth is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working
on the ESRC-funded ?Young People?s Sexual Practices? project. She was previously a PhD
student at CRFR, and completed her thesis on parent-child communication about sex and
sexuality in 2008. Her main research interests are sociology of families and youth, sexuality
education and qualitative methods.

Fatima is a Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, working on the 'Work-life balance across the Lifecourse: proofing policies and practices' project. A part-time lecturer and researcher at the Caledonian Business School,
She is also currently studying towards a PhD on the impact of work-life balance and gender on aspects of professional management development within the NHS.

Elizabeth is a Research Fellow for the Parenting and Family Research Programme in the School
of Psychology and in particular the Baby Triple P project.
She received her PhD from the University of Ulster, Magee Campus in 2007, based on implementing
and evaluating a mental health and well-being intervention programme for healthcare workers. Following
her PhD, Elizabeth worked as Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego for 2 years, as
Research Fellow for an early intervention behavioural and substance abuse programme for adolescents.

Elizabeth’s research interests are: Parenting & family intervention research, behavioural & substance
abuse intervention, mental health & well-being.

Juliet is a registered nurse with 25 years experience of working in the NHS. She is the Lead Practitioner for Research in NHS Lothian which is a role that is focussed on developing research capacity and capability in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions mainly through collaborative working with higher education institutions. Her research interests include the general hospital care of people with a learning disability and compassionate care. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD - 'Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: a realistic evaluation'.

Elizabeth is a Research Fellow for the Parenting and Family Research Programme in the School
of Psychology and in particular the Baby Triple P project.
She received her PhD from the University of Ulster, Magee Campus in 2007, based on implementing
and evaluating a mental health and well-being intervention programme for healthcare workers. Following
her PhD, Elizabeth worked as Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego for 2 years, as
Research Fellow for an early intervention behavioural and substance abuse programme for adolescents.

Elizabeth’s research interests are: Parenting & family intervention research, behavioural & substance
abuse intervention, mental health & well-being.

Dr McKee studied at Trinity College Dublin, where she obtained the Bachelor of Social Studies,
before gaining an MA and DPhil in Sociology at the University of York.
She has held research posts at the Universities of York, Aston, Warwick and Aberdeen. She has
also spent time as an NHS departmental manager. She has taught and supervised students on
taught masters and management development programmes at universities and for the NHS, as
well as supervising research degrees. She serves as a member of the Commissioning Board of
the National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D; and of the
subgroup on Managing Change.

Alice joined the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships in February 2007 to work
on a study entitled 'Work and Family Lives: The changing experiences of 'young' families'.
Between 2002 and 2006, she conducted her PhD research while based at the MRC Social
and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow. This involved using qualitative methods to investigate
gender differences in symptom reporting during childhood and adolescence.

Ingela joined the University of Edinburgh as Lecturer in Social Policy in 2005 after having worked
as Research Fellow at the Free University in Berlin.
Her main research interests focus on the links between work and care arrangements in European welfare states and on the political mobilizations and political processes around work/family policies. Ingela's current research projects include the cross-national comparison of the changing governance
of education and care, and the historical study of social policy
discourse on working mothers.

Sarah's major research interest is in childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and related issues of child
protection. Particular interests include mental health and sexual abuse; the long term physical
health consequences of CSA; practical prevention strategies at local and national level; and
community prevention against sex offending. She has carried out, with the Womanzone
organisation, a pilot project on Neighbourhood Mapping for Children’s Safety in Craigmillar,
Edinburgh. She has recently undertaken a Scottish Executive funded project to interview young
survivors of sexual abuse on how they would have liked schools and youth projects to respond
to their needs.

Sarah also shares a part-time post (with Anne Macdonald) in the Scottish Government
as Lead Professional for the National Strategy on Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

Ruth Payne is Director and Consultant at Bell & Payne Consultancy. She provides expert support for research and programme design with a focus on children, youth and families. She specializes in ethnographic research and collaborative approaches to programme design and has particular expertise
in qualitative, child-centred research and participatory methodologies. Ruth works with organizations in the UK and internationally including governments, NGOs and the United Nations. She has worked on research projects in Africa, Asia and the UK and is experienced in conducting ethnographic research with
children 'at risk' including street and working children, child-headed households, orphans and vulnerable children and children involved in violence and conflict. Ruth is also a Research Fellow
at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva .

Autumn Roesch-Marsh is a lecturer in Social Work at the The University of Edinburgh. She is
currently completing research relating to secure accommodation and decision making in Scotland.
Her interests include young people's perspectives on risk and decision making. She is also
interested in how decisions are made about the provision of services to particular groups of children
and young people. Autumn became interested in research through her work as a social worker and
is interested in developing research that will be of help to practitioners and students.

Matthew Sanders is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Parenting and Family Support
Centre at the University of Queensland. He is also a visiting Professor at Oxford University, Manchester University, University of South Carolina, Glasgow Caledonian University and The University of Auckland. Professor Sanders is considered a world leader in the field of evidence-based parenting and family interventions. As the founder of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program, his work has had a major international impact on child and parenting research, policy and practice.

He is an Australian Psychological Society spokesperson on child and family matters and he actively promotes positive parenting strategies throughout his local community.

Research interests include prevention and treatment of psychopathology in children and adolescents;
parent training and family intervention.

Kelly Shiell-Davis received her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in 2008, and was recently a post-doctoral Research Fellow at CRFR. Her research interests include the areas of motherhood and parenting, kinship, the professionalisation of everyday life, ethnographic methods, and social history.

Roona Simpson joined the Sociology Department within the School of Social and Political Sciences
at the University of Glasgow in 2011. Her research interests focus on contemporary familial/household
change; partnership and parental status; solo living; gender identities; narrative analysis; event history
analysis; mixed methodologies.

Alison is a Lecturer in Social Policy within the School of Social and Political Studies at the University
of Edinburgh and currently also an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Her current projects, which draw on
the secondary analysis of longitudinal data, include a cross-national focus on intergenerational
contributions to childcare, and the social stratification of parenthood.

Andrew is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations at Bradford
University School of Management. He entered academia as a mature student and successfully
completed an honours degree in Sociology and a masters degree in Policy Studies at the University
of Sunderland. Andrew was awarded a PhD studentship at Durham University and his doctoral
research investigated organisational culture change in the largest Public-Private Partnership in
the Civil Service. In 2006 he relocated to Glasgow to take up a post as a Research Assistant on
a major ESRC-funded project, which critically examined the concept of 'care' in employing organisations.
He was then employed as a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. Andrew’s main research
interests are in the sociology of work and employment. In particular: privatisation and Public-Private
Partnerships, organisational cultures, 'care' in employing organisations, and ‘lean’ working methods
in the public sector. Andrew is developing a publication track record and is also involved in knowledge
exchange processes.

Marion has a PhD from Cambridge University on the sociology of language and pain and
subsequently worked as a Research Fellow on a project concerning the development of
young children's gender identities during their first year of formal education. Her teaching
areas are the sociology of health and illness, the sociology of language, and research methods.
She also has research interests in how children as receivers of cultural information express their understandings of justice and the morality of punishment, and how their language discloses key features of current social sensibilities towards punishment; and in pain, particularly medically unexplained or untreated pain.

Marion's current research is on healthy pregnancy and women's accounts of the transition
to parenthood or the expansion of their family.

Jenny is a lecturer in Inclusive Practice in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen.
Following a career in secondary school teaching, Jenny joined the Rowan Group as a full time
researcher in 2003. The Rowan group is a focus for policy related research around the education,
health and well-being of children and young people. An integral aspect of this work is the exploration
of the interface between families and the providers of children's services, particularly schools.
Her research interests include the role of the school in supporting mental health and sex and
relationship education. Extending these interests to teacher education, she is currently leading
a research project exploring how inclusive messages taught to PGDE students translate into
practice in their first year of teaching.

Helen graduated in 1982 with an MA in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and went
on to complete an MPhil (Clinical Psychology), also at Edinburgh. Between 1985 and 1989 she worked as a Clinical Psychologist for the Greater Glasgow and Argyll & Clyde Health Boards,
and at the same time commenced a part-time PhD on the reactions of those caring for a close
relative with dementia. Having been granted a one-year postgraduate scholarship by the University
of Glasgow she was able to concentrate on her PhD full-time during 1990, graduating in 1991.
Helen has worked within the Unit's Youth Programme since late 1990. This programme seeks
to understand the range of influences on young people's health and health behaviours.

Fiona was appointed in December 2005 as a Research Fellow at Glasgow Centre for the
Child & Society. Currently her work involves qualitative exploration of the impact of poverty on
children and young people’s experiences of public, private and voluntary services. The study is
being undertaken in partnership between Glasgow Centre for the Child & Society, Scottish Centre
for Research into Social Justice, and Save the Children, and is funded by The Big Lottery.
Her research interests include: children, young people and social exlusion; employment aspirations; widening access to higher education; service delivery in rural areas; housing and homelessness; qualitative research.

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Karen is the former Director of Down’s Syndrome Scotland and has a background of research into
learning disability, end of life care and dementia. Karen has a joint honours degree in Sociology
and Social Policy and a Masters degree in Dementia Studies. She is a committee member of the
Special Interest Research Group on Down Syndrome with the International Association for Scientific
Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID). Karen is also a part time PhD student at the University
of Edinburgh.

Wendy has been involved in research with families and young people for a number
of years, with a particular focus on food and eating practices, nutrition, weight and obesity.
She is currently Senior Research Fellow in Adolescent and Child Health at the University of Hertfordshire. Wendy has worked with CRFR and RUHBC colleagues on studies exploring young teenagers’ and parents’ perceptions around diet, weight and health in families with/without an overweight or obese teenager. She is particularly interested in how social class underpins family perceptions and experiences relating to dietary health. She is also involved in several studies
focusing on primary care/service provision and initiatives for families with younger and older children,
in relation to obesity care pathways and nutrition advice.

Lay experiences of serious chronic illness including cancer, cardiovascular diseases and
HIV and AIDS; substance use in the family context; identity construction and illness with
particular reference to the family context and gender; socio-legal research; qualitative
research methods.

Rachael is a public health doctor interested in children's health and development,
the use of routinely collected health data, and the development of health policy.
She is a Chief Scientist Office funded Clinical Academic Training Fellow and is based
in the Public Health Sciences Department of the University of Edinburgh. As part of
her fellowship she is currently (2007-2011) conducting a PhD on the origins, implementation,
and impact of recent changes to the Child Health Surveillance/Health Visiting service in Scotland.