Eleanor Jupp is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent. Her research combines human geography and social policy concerns, with particular interests in policy interventions in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and questions of community, care and emotions. Sophie Bowlby is a feminist social geographer whose research focuses on access, care, friendship and experiences of bereavement. Whilst retired, she continues research as a Visiting Fellow at Reading University and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University. Jane Franklin is a political sociologist with an interest in feminism, social theory and politics. She has worked in academic and policy settings and is currently writing a book on women, politics and home. Sarah Marie Hall is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Working across feminist, social and economic geography, her research explores how lived experience and social difference shape socio-economic inequalities.