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Department
Sociology
and Social Policy
Contact
0113 343 4440 (work)
a.j.deacon@leeds.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Welfare
reform in the UK and the US;
-
'New' Labour thinking on welfare;
-
Behaviour and benefits - anti-social behaviour and truancy.
Media
Experience:
Live
and recorded national and regional television and radio; and national
and regional newspaper interviews and comment.
Department
University
of Bradford: Social Sciences and Humanities
Contact
01274 235 233 (work)
s.s.duncan@bradford.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Family
lives and social policies;
-
Lone mothers and employment;
-
Mothering, paid work and childcare;
-
Work/life balance;
- Comparative
gender inequality in Europe;
-
Marriage, cohabitation and the law.
Media
Experience:
Live and recorded national radio (UK and Sweden); and national and
regional newspapers.
Department
Sociology and Social
Policy
Centre
for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
Leeds Institute for the Social Sciences (LISS) - to be launched
in 2004
Contact
0113 343 4424 (work)
j.mason@leeds.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Family
relationships - across generations and place;
-
Transnational families;
-
Care and family responsibilities.
Media
Experience:
Local newspapers
Department
Sociology
and Social Policy
Centre
for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Contact
0113 343 4409 (work)
0113 343 3770 (secretary)
s.roseneil@leeds.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Old
and new forms of personal relationships and living arrangements
(LATS, cohabitation, 'singledom');
-
Friendship and care responsibilities;
-
Gay and lesbian rights;
- 'Family'
politics - trade union positions on parenting and partnering;
- Social
movements, political action, and feminist politics;
- General
social change and 'individualisation';
-
Policy discourses around the 'child'.
Media
Experience:
Live and recorded national and regional television and radio; and
national and regional newspaper interviews and comment.
Department
Sociology
and Social Policy
Centre for
Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood
Contact
0113 343 4431 (work)
0113 343 4874 (secretary)
c.c.smart@leeds.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Divorce
and separation;
- Marriage,
cohabitation and families;
-
Divorce and children - contact and residence disputes;
-
Family law since 1950;
-
Changing relationships.
Media
Experience:
Live and recorded national and regional television and radio; and
national and regional newspaper interviews and comment.
Department
Sociology
and Social Policy
Contact
0113 343 4427 (work)
0113 343 4872 (secretary)
j.f.williams@leeds.ac.uk
Areas
of Expertise:
- Parenting
and partnering - new and old ways;
-
Innovative thinking in social policy - ethic of care;
- Social
welfare movements on gender, 'race' and disability;
-
European welfare states - histories and futures;
-
Migration and domestic/care work.
Media
Experience:
Live and recorded national and regional television and radio;
and national and regional newspaper interviews and comment.
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