Sarah Davis

Sam Hillyard

Sam Hillyard is a Reader in Sociology at Durham in the United Kingdom. She is the series editor of Studies in Qualitative Methodology (Emerald) and a member of the editorial board for the journal Qualitative Research. Her research interests lie with the synergies between theoretical ideas and empirical ethnographic research. This interest has been applied across a variety of research settings: Recent projects include game shooting in the UK and access to elite higher education. These interests are reflected in a series of funding awards from the ESRC, the Rural Economy and Land Use programme (ESRC, NERC, and BBSRC), and Natural Resources Wales. Her books include Doing Fieldwork with Professor Pole (2016) and Approaches to Fieldwork, a four-volume collection (2014).

Richard Thwaites

Richard Thwaites is Clinical Director for First Step, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. 

Beverly Haarhoff

Beverley Haarhoff is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. 

Alan Cross

Prof. Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki (b. 1947) came to Sweden from Warzaw, Poland as a refugee in 1969. He has a PhD in sociology from Stockholm University (1978) and is Professor of criminology at Stockholm University and University of Gävle. He has done extensive research on youth crime, criminal networks, and criminal policy, and is the author of several textbooks in criminology. Having worked on The Stockholm Life-Course Project since the late 1970s, Sarnecki has been the project director for the 2^nd and 3^rd waves of the study. He is also co-chair of the jury for the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Contact Information:
Email: jerzy.sarnecki@crim.su.se
Phone: +46 8 16 20 00

Zoe Field

Zoë Field, University of Sussex, UK

Lee Barron

Lee Barron has a BSc in Sociology from Northumbria University and (1995) and an MA in Cultural & Textual Studies from the University of Sunderland (1997). He received his PhD from the University of Sunderland in 2004. He was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Northumbria in the UK in 2004 where he taught in the Departments of Social Sciences and Media. He is now based in the School of Design at Northumbria where he teaches in the areas of fashion branding, marketing, and luxury brand management. His research interests cover subjects such as fashion, popular music, celebrity, tattooing, and culture-inspired design, and he is currently developing research in the areas of AI and smart technology. He has published in a number of international journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Fashion Theory, Celebrity Studies, Popular Music History, European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Modern Craft, Gothic Studies, and Fashion, and Style and Popular Culture. He has also contributed chapters to a number of edited book collections that include Popular Music and Film (2003), Terror Tracks (2009), The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History (2010), and Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures (2013). He is also the author of four sole-authored books: Social Theory in Popular Culture (2013), Celebrity Cultures (2015), Tattoo Culture: Theory and Contemporary Contexts (2017) and Tattoos and Popular Culture (2020).

Adrian Pennington

Jan Hartman