David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Ruth Levitas has been Professor of Sociology at Bristol since 2001, and a member of the Department of Sociology at Bristol since 1979. Peter Phillimore is professor of social anthropology at Newcastle University, ... Read morein the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Chris Phillipson has held the post of Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele since 1988. C Margot E. Salomon is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science. Alan Walker joined the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1977 and has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Social Policy. Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Dublin City University. Show Less