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Ryan Bramley is a PhD candidate in the School of Education, University of Sheffield. He is writing a thesis on Filmmaking as a community building practice. He completed a masters degree in August 2016, culminating in a dissertation project, Non-professional poetic representations of the 1984-85 Miners Strike in industrial/post-industrial South Yorkshire a socio-literary comparative study of the poetry catalysed by the Miners Strike, both during that conflict and from the present day.
Deborah Bullivant is an educationalist with over 30 years experience from working across ages, within communities. She is the director of Grimm and Co a not-for-profit literacy charity, based in Rotherham. The group of girls involved in the We come from programme are classed by the wider community as Roma. However, they dont recognise this term and would prefer to describe themselves as being born in their country of origin (in this case, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) but now citizens of the UK. These girls are aged between 11 and 15 and were co-researchers within this study focusing on autobiographical journeys during times of turmoil and uncertainty for their community in Rotherham.
Elizabeth (Beth) Campbell s interests are in collaborative and community-based research and writing. Her current research explores the constitutive nature of collaborative research, and especially how it works through shared agency, commitment and experience to form and transform those who engage it. She is co-author of Doing ethnography today and The other side of Middletown , and is Associate Professor in Marshall Universitys College of Education in the US, where she teaches qualitative research and educational foundations.
Miles Crompton is a Policy and Partnership Officer at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) with a remit for research and policy development. Miles graduated with a degree in town planning in 1984 and worked in town planning for 15 years, before moving to corporate research, while working for Barnsley MBC (1989-2005). He became Research Co-ordinator at Rotherham MBC in 2005 and has worked at Rotherham Council ever since. He also served as a councillor in Leeds from 1987 to 1995 and has been a director of South Yorkshire Credit Union since 2002. With 30 years experience in local government, Miles has taken a keen interest in demographic and socioeconomic trends affecting South Yorkshire, and in developing a better understanding of local communities.
Tanya Evans is a mother of two girls, and has lived in Rotherham all her life. She has been actively involved in her local community, local childrens centre and community research for a number of years.
Nathan Gibson is a photographer and filmmaker, whose work focuses on community cohesion, contemporary masculinity and companionship. During the spring and summer of 2016, Nathan worked with a group of young men in Rotherham to create a collaborative photographic project detailing and discussing their experiences of living in the town. Nathan recently moved to Beijing, where he is pursuing a masters degree in multimedia journalism.
William Goulds current research concerns notions of citizenship and state transformation over Indian independence and partition. He is also continuing to research and write on the politics of religious conflict and communalism in South Asia, for which he is currently working on a third book project Religion and conflict in South Asia. He is also working on historical narratives of South Asian migrants to the UK after 1947, as part of a collaborative project with other members of the University of Leeds.
Abi Hackett is a mother of two and a Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her ethnographic research mainly focuses on the meaning making of very young children, and how to understand these collaboratively with parents and families. Before completing her doctorate, Abi worked in the cultural sector, specialising in learning and community engagement, for a number of years, including as Community Outreach Officer at Clifton Park Museum. She is co-editor of the book Childrens spatialities. Embodiment, emotion, agency.