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Amanda Coffey is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. She has published on gender and education, qualitative research methods and analysis and on professional accountancy training.
Brian Davies is Professor of Education in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His research interests include the curricular and pedagogical aspects of schooling; educational policy; professional development; and social research.
Sara Delamont is Reader in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She has published widely on the sociology of education, the sociology and social history of women, qualitative research methods and European anthropology.
Bani Dev Makkar is a Research Officer at the London School of Economics. She was, until recently, a postgraduate student at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Lesley Pugsley is a Lecturer in Research Methods at the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education at UWCM. Her research interests include policy sociology into higher education markets and choice, gender issues and school transitions and she has published on these topics. She is currently researching the occupational socialisation of Pre-Registration House Officers in Wales and the South West of England.
Emma Renold is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and, until recently, also a Research Assistant with the NSPCC where she is working on the violence programme looking at physical and sexual violence between young people in residential settings. Her PhD explores the construction of gender and sexual identities in the primary school.
Kate Robson is a Lecturer in Behavioural Science in the School of Dentistry at the University of Wales, College of Medicine. She has published work on the uses of computer mediated communications as a research tool and the role of the body in computerised communications.
Mark Robson is a Research Assistant at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His research interests include the effects of street theatre on space and the effects of the Internet on leisure.
Neil Selwyn is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has published widely on the educational use of Information Technology and is currently researching the development of the National Grid for learning (with John Fitz). His research interests include the construction of educational computing policy at the macro level of government and business, the development of educational information infrastructures and individual learners psychological reactions to technology.
Catrin Smith is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Trevor Welland is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His doctoral research explores the socialising consequences of training for ordained ministry within the Anglican Communion. Other teaching and research interests include teacher training, sociology of education and qualitative research methods.
Patrick White is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. His doctoral research explores the Careers Education and Guidance offered to Year 11 pupils.
Emma Wincup is currently a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Until recently she lectured in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University where she taught criminology and research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Publications to date converge around two areas of interest: gender, crime and criminal justice (based on her doctoral research on bail hostel provision for women awaiting trial) and research methods in criminology. She has recently edited a volume in qualitative research in criminology in the Cardiff Papers Series. At present she is editing, and contributing to, a Handbook of Criminological Research for Oxford University Press and an introductory text on crime for Hodder and Stoughton.