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Pat Allait is Professor of Sociology at Teesside Business School, University of Teeside. A trained teacher, she studied sociology at the Universities of Cardiff and Keele and held posts at the Universities of Keele, Northumbia and Durham. She has researched and published on crime prevention, community development, family ideology in wartime and childhood and youth, particularly focusing on family relations and labour markets. She is currently developing and evaluating an experimental approach to the delivery of education, training and other services which aims to enhance well-being and access to employment by engaging the whole family rather than the lone individual. She is co-author of Youth Unemployment and the Family: Voices of Disordered Time.
Phillip Brown is Reader in Sociology at the Unviersity of Kent at Canterbury. He has written, co-authored and edited a number of books including Schooling Ordinary Kids (Tavistock, 1987); Education for Economic Survival (with Hugh Lauder) (Routledge, 1992); Higher Education and Corporate Realities (with Richard Scase) (UCL Press, 1994); and Education: Economy, Culture and Society (with A. H. Halsey et al.) (Oxford University Press, 1997). He is currently writing a book with Hugh Lauder on capitalism, class and social progress in the twenty-first century and is engaged in a comparative study of skill formation and economic organisation in Britain, Germany, Singapore and South Korea.
John Bynner is Professor of Social Statistics and Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit, City University; he previously worked in Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (1964-70) and at the Open University (1970-88), where was Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education. He was National Coordinator of the ESRC 16 - 19 Initiative (1986-91) and is currently responsible for the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study. Recent publications include: Careers and Identities (with others) (1991), Teenage Careers and Leisure Lives (with Ashford) (1992), Transition to Employment and Citizenship (1992), The Basic Skills of Young Adults (with Ekinsmyth) (1993), Making the Grade: Education and Training at Age 33 in the 1958 Cohort (with Fogelman) (1993), Basic Skills and Entry to the Labour Market (1994), Work and Identity (1994), Skills and Ocupations (1994), Social Life and Delinquency (1995), Skills and Disadvantage in Labour Market Entry (1995), Resisting Youth Unemployment (1996), Does Numeracy Matter? (with Parsons) (1997).
Lynne Chisholm joined the Policy Co-ordination and Planning Unit at DGXXII (Education, Training and Youth) at the European Commission in 1996 from a professorship at the University of Marburg Institute of Education; she is also currently Vice-President/Europe region of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth). She has published widely in the fields of gender, education and the labour market and in comparative youth transitions, including European-level policy studies; has been actively involved in curriculum development and delivery of in-service courses for international youth workers; and is a founding member of CYRCE (Circle for Youth Research Cooperation in Europe, based in Berlin).
Bob Coles is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York. He has a long standing research interest in youth issues and is his most recent book Youth and Social Policy (UCL Press, 1995) reviews research on vulnerable groups of young people. He is currently carrying out research with colleagues in the Centre for Housing Policy at York on multi-agency apporaches to meeting the needs of young people living on social housing estates.
Manuela du Bois-Reymond is Professor for youth studies and youth policy within the Department of Education at Leiden University, Netherlands. Her research fields centre around young peoples transitions, relationship between children/young people and their parents, cross-cultural and biographical research, new lifeplans of young people and European youth problems.
Nicholas Emler is University Lecturer in Social Psychology, Oxford University and Fellow of Wolfson College; he was formerly Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Dundee. He has been a visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Tulsa University, and the Universities of Bologna and Geneva. He is a former chief editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology, is on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Experimental Social Pscyhology and was previously Association secretary. His research has been in the areas of moral, political and economic socialisation and publications include Adolescence and Delinquency: The collective Management of Reputation (1995) co-authored with Stephen Reicher and, co-authored with others, Careers and Identities (1992), the principle report on ESRCs major study of political and economic socialisation in late adolescence, the 16-19 study.
Karen Evans is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education, a field of study she has pioneered and developed in the University of Surrey. She has directed numerous research studies on aspects of youth transition, learning and work in Britain, the European Union and Canada. Interests in international and comparative studies are reflected in her wide range of published articles and books, which include Becoming Adults in England and Germany (Anglo-German Foundation, 1994) Competence and Citizenship (British Journal of Education and Work, 1995), Reshaping Colleges for the Community in Canada and Britain (Jounal of Research in Post-Compulsory Education) Technical and Training Mastery in the Workplace (Hyde Publications, 1994) and Education for Young Adults: International Perspectives (Routledge, 1991).
Ken Fogelman is Professor of Education at Leicester University. Since 1990 he has also been Director of the Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education, which was established to carry out research and development to promote and support citizenship education in schools. Prior to going to Leicester in 1988 he had been a mathematics teacher, a researcher at the National Foundation for Educational Research, Assistant Director at the National Childrens Bureau and Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit, City University. At the Bureau and at City his main responsibility was for the National Child Development Study (the 1958 Cohort).
