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Dr Laura Airey |
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Laura Airey recently worked
for CRFR as a research fellow on the project 'Work life balance
in Scottish food retail companies'.
Her interests include health inequalities; lifecourse; well-being;
lay experiences of health
and illness; women. |
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Ross Bond |
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| Ross Bond is a Lecturer
in Sociology, based in the School of Social and Political Studies,
University of Edinburgh. His current research includes investigation
of migration into Scotland, and of national identities in Scotland
and the rest of the UK. |
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| Jane Elliot |
| Jane Elliott is
a Sociologist and is Professor of Research Methodology at the
Institute of Education. She is Principal Investigator of the
1970 and 1958 British Birth Cohort Studies. She has a long standing
interest in the use of narrative to facilitate quantitative
and qualitative analysis. Her book ‘Using Narrative in
Social Research: qualitative and quantitative approaches’
was published by Sage in 2005. |
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Susan
Elsley |
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Susan
is an independent consultant in children and young people's
rights, policy and research.
She has wide experience in management, research, policy and
practitioner roles in children's
organisations and in the wider voluntary sector. Susan has a
PhD in Sociology, teaches on the
MSc in Childhood Studies in the Department of Social Policy
and is an Honorary Fellow of the
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Susan has research interests
across children and childhood with a particular focus on children's
rights and participation,
looked after children and young people, play, child poverty
and children's books and culture.
Susan is interested in inter-disciplinary approaches to children
and childhood in policy,
research and service delivery.
For further information see www.crfr.ac.uk/projectstaff.html |
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Professor
Linda McKie |
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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.
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). |
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Dr Alice MacLean |
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Alice
MacLean works at CRFR as a research fellow on the project ‘Work
and Family Lives: The Changing Experiences of ‘Young’
Families’.
Her interests include conducting research
with children and young people; gender inequalities in health;
gender identities; patterns of communication within families. |
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Roona
Simpson |
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| Roona Simpson is
an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Research on Families
and Relationships. Her research interests focus on contemporary
familial/household change. She is currently looking at the potential
of using individual life histories derived from quantitative
data to investigate changes in the timing and propensity to
parenthood in Britain. |
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Professor
Kay Tisdall |
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Currently Kay is
Professor of Childhood Policy, Reader School of Social &
Political Studies,
Programme Director of the MSc in Childhood Studies, Postgraduate
Adviser for Social Policy
and Co-Director of CRFR.
From Oct 1999-March 2003,she also served as Director of Policy
& Research, Children in Scotland.
Children in Scotland is the national membership agency for organisations
and individuals working
with children and their families.
For further information see, www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_policy/tisdall_kay
or www.crfr.ac.uk/directorkt.html |
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