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Yunis Alam lectures in the Division of Social Sciences and Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Bradford. His teaching and research interests include qualitative research methods, in particular ethnography, as well as ethnic relations, postcolonial literature and popular culture. He is also a novelist and author of several short stories.
Lynn Hancock is Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, a member of the Crime, Order(ing), Urban Change and Social Justice research cluster in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology and the Children’s Rights, Welfare and Social Justice cluster in the School of Law and Social Justice. Her main research areas are in urban criminology, with particular reference to urban change, ‘crime’ and criminalisation; the politics of community safety; the criminalisation of ‘place’, exclusion, and discourses on urban regeneration, crime and social control; and lay public involvement in and responses to criminal justice. Following her book, Community, Crime and Disorder:
Safety and Regeneration in Urban Neighbourhoods (Palgrave), she has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, articles and reports on the relationships, interactions, discontinuities and dilemmas between theories, policies and practices in each of these areas.
Charles Husband is Professor of Social Analysis and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research at the University of Bradford. He is a Docent in Sociology at the University of Helsinki and lectures on ethnic relations there. He has a long history of seeking to relate social science theory and research to concrete policy issues in multi-ethnic societies.
Glen Newey is Professor of Political Theory at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
He studied history and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge and secured a D.Phil in political philosophy at the University of York. His work focusses on critiques of modern liberalism, toleration, freedom of speech, and political ethics, with a particular interest in Thomas Hobbes. He is currently completing a book on toleration and an extended essay on the relation between theodicy and modern secular theories of justice.
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Heidi Mescher is Lecturer in the Department of Police and Security Management at The School of Applied Sciences, Altenholz, Germany. She is engaged in training police officers; with a specialism in Psychology and Criminology, which includes issues of intercultural competence. Within the police she also works as a counsellor.
Tom Moring is Professor in Communication and Journalism at the Swedish School of Social Science at University of Helsinki. He is an internationally recognized expert on language and the media, in which field he has repeatedly been consulted by the Council of Europe and other international bodies. His research interests also include studies of political elites, elections, election campaigns, and the media, in which fields he has published extensively both nationally and internationally.
Konrad Pędziwiatr is Assistant Professor at the Tischner European University and researcher at the Centre of Migration Studies, University of Warsaw. Sociologist and anthropologist by training (Jagiellonian University, University of Exeter and University of Oxford) specializing in sociology of migration, new social movements and religion (especially Islam), holding a PhD in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Author of monographs The New Muslim Elites in European Cities: Religion and Active Social Citizenship Amongst Young Organized Muslims in Brussels and London (VDM Verlag 2010) and From Islam of Immigrants to Islam of Citizens: Muslims in the Countries of Western Europe (Nomos 2005, 2007) and numerous other scientific and non-scientific publications on Islam and Muslims in Europe and social movements in Europe and the Middle East. He is also the editor of www.arabia.pl and www.euro-islam.info and member of the Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Science.
Gavan Titley is Lecturer in Media Studies in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research focuses on migration and media transnationalism, and questions of race and racism in Europe. His most recent work (with Alana Lentin) is The Crisis of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age.
