Cooper Vickie - The Violence of Austerity

Leah Bassel is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leicester. She is author of Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture (2012), The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life (forthcoming) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (with Akwugo Emejulu, forthcoming).

Emma Bond is Associate Professor at the University of Suffolk, where she is Director of Faculty Research. Emma has led research projects funded by the Home Office and the European Commission on online risk, domestic abuse and youth unemployment.

Jon Burnett is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Swansea. He has published widely on issues relating to forced labour, racism and neoliberalism, hate crime and medical power. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Race Relations.

Charlotte Burns is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Policy at the University of York, where she researches environmental policy and politics. She is currently engaged in a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust investigating the impact of austerity upon environmental politics and policy in Europe.

Victoria Canning is a feminist campaigner, asylum rights activist and Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. She is currently researching the gendered harms in seeking asylum in Britain, Denmark and Sweden and works with various organisations including Merseyside Womens Movement and Migrant Artists Mutual Aid.

Vickie Cooper is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University where she is Co-Director of HERC (Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative) and researches issues related to homelessness, criminal justice system, housing and eviction.

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, inequality and poverty.

David Ellis is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool, where he researches issues around personal indebtedness in the UK and its historical growth in relation to welfare reform. David has collaborated in major research projects with organisations including Democratic Audit and the Law Commission.

Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, gender and the grassroots activism of women of colour in Europe and America. She is author of Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain (2015) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (with Leah Bassel, forthcoming).

Joanna Gilmore is Lecturer in Law at the University of York researching public order policing and community-based responses to police misconduct. She is a founding member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, a community initiative established to monitor policing practices and provide support, advocacy and advice to the victims of police violence.

Simon Hallsworth is Professor of Sociology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Suffolk. He has written extensively on issues around urban violence, imprisonment and contemporary state development. His most recent book is The Gang and Beyond; Interpreting Violent Street Worlds (2014).

Laura Hamilton is a PhD student and researcher at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London. Her research focuses on inequality, food and young people. She is also involved in a European Research Council-funded study on Families and Food in Hard Times.

Daniel Holder is currently Deputy Director of Belfast-based human rights non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ). In this role he is also Co-Convener of the Equality Coalition, the umbrella network of equality NGOs and trade unions convened by CAJ and UNISON.

Will Jackson is Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on policing, security and protest. His current work, in collaboration with the Network for Police Monitoring, is on the policing of anti-fracking protests. He is co-editor of Destroy, Build, Secure: Readings on Pacification (2017).

Robert Knox is Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. He is also editor of the journal Historical Materialism and a member of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee. His primary interest are in the fields of Marxist and critical legal theory.

Ruth London spent four decades in the Global Womens Strike, Women Against Rape and then Climate Camp. Ruth helped found Fuel Poverty Action in 2011 to confront the energy giants and government policies which kill thousands in cold homes while destroying the planet.

Joanna Mack is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and the Open University. She was a member of the 201015 research team Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK and runs the website www.poverty.ac.uk. She is co-author (with Stewart Lansley) of Breadline Britain the Rise of Mass Poverty (2015).

Maureen Mansfield principally works in the voluntary sector, specifically womens organisations such as Women in Prison and currently with the Womens Resource Centre. Maureen is a steering group member of the Reclaim Justice Network, she is involved with Reclaim Holloway campaign and a founding member of Holloway United Therapies and Holloway Prison Stories.

Daniel McCulloch is Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at the Open University, where he researches issues on homelessness, poverty and the experiences of deaf and hard of hearing prisoners.

Helen Monk is Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion (CCSE). Her research interests include the policing of women, womens involvement in social movements, womens experiences of sexual coercion and violence, and the formation of identity and subjectivity. She is co-editor of Women, Crime and Criminology: A Celebration (2017).

Rebecca OConnell is Senior Research Officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London. Her research focuses on food, children and families. She is co-author, with Julia Brannen, of Food, Families and Work (2016) and Principal Investigator of a European Research Council-funded study on Families and Food in Hard Times.

Mary OHara is an award-winning journalist, author and media consultant specialising in social affairs and social justice. She freelances across a number of publications and platforms in the UK and the USA, including the Guardian. She is author of the book Austerity Bites (2015) and a Fulbright Scholar.

Hilda Palmer is Acting Chair of the UK Hazards Campaign. She has worked at Greater Manchester Hazards Centre since 1987.

Kirsteen Paton is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool teaching about class and urban sociology. She is the author of Gentrification: A Working-class Perspective (2014). Her recent research explores regeneration, stigma and evictions in relation to welfare reform in the UK.

John Pring is editor of Disability News Service in the UK. He is author of Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal (2011) which investigates the horrific abuse of adults with learning difficulties that took place at two residential homes.

Rizwaan Sabir is Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University, where he researches counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and the War on Terror in the UK. Rizwaan is a regular contributor to the media and frequently works with lawyers and advocacy groups in the UK and overseas on issues involving his subject specialism.