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Maria Letizia Bosoni is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, and a member of both the Family Studies and Research University Centre (Catholic University). Her research interests are workfamily reconciliation and fatherhood. Publications include Between change and continuity: fathers and workfamily balance in Italy (with Elisabetta Crespi and Isabella Ruspini) in Balancing work and family in a changing society: The fathers perspective (edited by E. Crespi and I. Ruspini, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and, with Sarah Baker, The intergenerational transmission of fatherhood: a comparative study of the UK and Italy in the journal Families, Relationships and Societies (2015).
Simon Burnett currently works for KPMG and has previously worked in the private, public and third sectors. He has expertise in working with financial services organisations in human resources transformation, people risk and culture. He has led and delivered change programmes, developed behavioural, financial and diversity analytics, and improved business processes, policies and benchmarking capabilities. He published a single-authored, research-based book, The happiness agenda: A modern obsession (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), analysing how organisations and governments increase happiness and wellbeing at work. He has also co-authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on wellbeing, flexible working practices, engagement and gender.
Rita Chawla-Duggan is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath. After graduating and practising as a teacher, she trained in educational ethnography and completed a PhD in childhood ethnography, researching social influences on childrens learning in India. She has conducted ethnographic research with children in England, Japan, Ghana and India. Her recent research investigates the use of visual methods, early childhood development, and social influences on young childrens learning, especially fathering. She is currently leading an international project funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Foundation on paternal engagement in home learning environments, using digital visual methods.
Kristian Daneback is Professor of Social Work at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interest is how new technologies influence various social phenomena and aspects of everyday life. Research topics so far have focused on sexuality and the internet, parenting and the internet, and cyberbullying. Another, methodological, focus is on how technology can be used for data collection. Professor Daneback is also Associate Editor of the journal Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace.
Esther Dermott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol. Her expertise is in families, parenting, intimacy, poverty and gender, and she has published widely on these topics. She has a longstanding research interest in fatherhood, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and publications include Intimate fatherhood (Routledge, 2008) and a special issue of the journal Families, Relationships and Societies (2015, edited with Tina Miller). She is Co-Editor of The Sociology of Children and Families Policy Press book series, Co-Editor of Open Space on Families, Relationships and Societies, and a board member of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Families and Relationships.
Caroline Gatrell is Professor of Organization Studies at University of Liverpool Management School. Her research centres on family, work and health. From a socio-cultural perspective, she examines how working parents (both fathers and mothers) manage boundaries between paid work and everyday lives. In so doing, she explores interconnections between gender, bodies and employment, including theorising on masculinity and work, as well as development of the concepts maternal body work and pregnant presenteeism. Her work is published in leading journals, including Human Relations; Sociological Review; Gender, Work and Organization; and Families, Relationships and Societies. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews.
Jonathan Ives is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics and Law, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at Bristol Medical School, where he is also Co-Director of Postgraduate Research. His research interests focus primarily on methodology in bioethics and the ethics and sociology of fatherhood, families and reproduction, but he also publishes (inter alia) in research ethics, end-of-life ethics, mental health and a range of other topics in medical ethics. He is a section editor (Methodology in Bioethics) for BMC Medical Ethics and associate editor for Health Care Analysis. He sits on the Royal College of General Practitioners Ethics Committee, and is Co-Editor of
