CATRINA ALFEROFF Lecturer for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University KAY ARANDA Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Health Studies at Croydon College MICHAEL BULL Lecturer in the Department of Communications at Anglia Polytechnic University TONY CHAPMAN Head of Sociology at the University of Teesside JÖRG DÜRRSCHMIDT Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol CRAIG GURNEY Lecturer in Housing at the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales BARBARA HARRISON Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of East London LYDIA MARTENS Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling CHRIS MARTIN Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh SHAUN MOORES Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh MARTIN O'BRIEN Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey GILLIAN REYNOLDS Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University RACHEL THOMSON Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, Politics and Social Science, South Bank University, London MARK THORPE Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University College London ALAN WARDE Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University