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.

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.

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.

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 University of Stirling. 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.

Roona Simpson's research interests focus on contemporary familial/household change; partnership
and parental status; solo living; gender identities; narrative analysis; event history analysis; mixed methodologies. Roona joined CRFR as an ESRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2005 studying
fertility decline, after completing her Doctorate at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics.

Roona Simpson CV

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 Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Business School at the
University of East London. 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 Resaerch Assistant on a major ESRC-funded project, which critically examines the concept of 'care' in employing organisations. 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.

Pamela is a lecturer in Medical Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the University's Centre for Public Health and Primary Care Research, and Centre for Reproductive
Biology. Her main research interest is in reproductive health - fertility, pregnancy, menstrual
disorders, male reproductive health and sexually transmitted diseases, all of which can impact
on family and relationships. Approaches encompass questionnaire survey, health services
research and more in-depth studies.
She teaches on the MSc in Public Health Research.

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.