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FAMILIES IN MOTION

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FAMILIES IN MOTION: EBBING AND FLOWING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

EDITED BY

Lesley Murray

University of Brighton, UK

Liz McDonnell

University of Sussex, UK

Tamsin Hinton-Smith

University of Sussex, UK

Nuno Ferreira

University of Sussex, UK

Katie Walsh

University of Sussex, UK

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List of Contributors

Rakel Berman is a PhD student at the Department of Social Work in Gothenburg, Sweden. She has a background in practical social work. Her main research interests concern children and families, particularly children’s everyday lives and personal relationships. Her recent work explores children’s perspectives on dual residence after parental separation.

Maria Giovanna Cassa obtained her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy. She teaches anthropology at the University of Brescia, Italy, works in mental health services and in urban marginal zones promoting active citizenship. She collaborates with Amarcord studios (Casablanca) realising ethnographic documentaries in Morocco.

Susannah Clement is an Early Career Researcher interested in exploring everyday mobility and family life through a material feminist lens. Her PhD research explored the walking experiences of families living in Wollongong, Australia. She is an Honorary Associate Fellow with the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong.

Caroline Cresswell is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, UK. Caroline’s research encompasses policy and practice relating to the support of young people’s transitions, particularly those who are care-experienced. Caroline is currently evaluating service innovations for recent care leavers or children within specialist residential and foster care settings.

Ariane Critchley is a Lecturer in Social Work at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. She recently submitted her Doctoral thesis titled ‘Quickening Steps: An Ethnography of Pre-birth Child Protection’ to the University of Edinburgh. Ariane has also been involved in research into self-directed support, adoption, maternity and neonatal care experiences in the Scottish context.

Sondra Cuban is a Professor at Western Washington University, focusses on the migration and mobilities of migrant women and their experiences, aspirations, trajectories and strategies. Her most recent books are: Transnational Family Communication: Immigrants and ICTs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Nuno Ferreira is a Professor of Law at the University of Sussex, UK. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Nuno is a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient and Co-director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research.

Tamsin Hinton-Smith is a Sociologist of Gender and Education and a Senior Lecturer in the Education Department at the University of Sussex, UK. Her previous research has included work around lone and teenage parents. Her current work focusses on supporting the educational progression journeys of young people leaving care, and those from traveller backgrounds.

Clare Holdsworth is a Professor of Social Geography at Keele University, UK and recipient of a Major Leverhulme Fellowship on The Social Life of Busyness in an Age of De-acceleration. She has published widely on family mobilities including Family and Intimate Mobilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Marie Anne Hutton is a Law Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the lead Editor of the first Handbook of Prison and the Family published by Palgrave Macmillan (Hutton, M. A. and Moran, D., 2019). Her research interests centre on family contact in prisons, prisoners’ families and human rights and prison ethnography more generally.

Alexandra Macht is a Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. She co-edited the annual review of The International Network of Leave Policies and Research, with Peter Moss, Sonja Blum and Alison Koslowski. Her first book titled Fatherhood and Love will appear in 2019 with Palgrave Macmillan.

Bella Marckmann has a PhD in Sociology and is a Special Adviser in the evaluation unit of the National Center for Learning in Science, Technology, and Health. She has carried out research at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Sociology as part of a project entitled ‘The Moral Economy of Families’ funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Liz McDonnell is an experienced social researcher who has worked in both academic and community settings conducting research around personal life/intimacy, health and more recently on research that aims to promote equality and diversity in universities through understanding institutional cultures. She is employed at the University of Sussex, UK, as a Senior Research Fellow and teaches on the MA in Gender studies.

Laura Merla is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her research focusses on the transformation of family relations in contexts of mobility. She is the co-editor of Making Multicultural Families in Europe: Gender and Intergenerational Relation (Palgrave McMillan, 2018) and Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life (Routledge, 2014).

Lesley Murray is an Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Brighton, UK. She has published extensively in the field of mobilities, including co-authoring a book on Children’s Mobilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and co-editing three collections, Mobile Methodologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Researching Mobilities: Transdisciplinary Encounters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Intergenerational Mobilities (Routledge, 2016).

Bérengère Nobels is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Her research examines children’s lived experiences of multi-locality in the context of joint physical custody arrangements in Belgium in the larger framework of the ERC Starting Grant Project “MobileKids” (PI: Laura Merla).

Lisa Taylor is Head of Media at Leeds Beckett University, UK and has published on media studies, popular film, music and art. In 2008, A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices was published, an ethnography about lifestyle television and gardeners. She is currently working on responses to demolition in an ex-industrial village.

Katie Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK, researching home, family and migration. Her recent publications include Transnational Geographies of the Heart: Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City (Wiley, 2018) and co-edited Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age (Routledge, 2016) and British Migration (Routledge, 2018).