Sylvia Chant is Professor of Development Geography and Director of the MSc Urbanisation & Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sylvia has carried out research in Mexico, Costa Rica, the Philippines and The Gambia, has held visiting professorships in Spain and Switzerland, and has undertaken consultancies for a wide range of development organisations including UNDP, UN-DESA/UNDAW, ILO, UNICEF, UN-HABITAT, World Bank, ECLA and the Commonwealth Secretariat. She is currently serving as a member of the Expert Advisory Group for UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2018. Families in a Changing World: Public Action for Women’s Rights. In 2011 Sylvia was made a Fellow of the RSA in recognition of her expertise and exploration of gender issues within geographical development. In 2015 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) on account of being a ‘world-leading figure in international social science, helping to stake out the field of gender and development’.
Sylvia's latest books include a 4 volume collection on Gender, Poverty and Development (Routledge, 2015), edited with former PhD student Dr Gwendolyn Beetham, and Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a Feminised Urban Future (co-authored with Cathy McIlwaine, QMUL) (Routledge, 2016). |
Eveline Dürr is Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology and an affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Previously, Eveline held a position as Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, the USA, New Zealand and Germany, including the Transpacific as a relational space between the Americas and the South Pacific. From 2012-2017, Eveline was leader of the trilateral research project Slum Tourism in the Americas: Commodifying Urban Poverty and Violence.
Her latest publications include Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), edited together with Arno Pascht, and Transpacific Americas: Encounters and Engagements between the Americas and the South Pacific (Routledge, 2016), edited together with Philipp Schorch. |
Suzanne Fitzpatrick is Professor of Housing and Social Policy and director of iSPHERE, the Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research, Heriot-Watt University. From 2003 to 2010 Suzanne was Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York. Suzanne specialises in research on homelessness and housing exclusion, and much of her work has an international comparative dimension. Suzanne was until recently Editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy.
Her latest publications include Controlling homeless people? Power, interventionism and legitimacy (in Journal of Social Policy, 2017), with Beth Watts and Sarah Johnsen, Empowerment, capabilities and homelessness: the limitations of employment-focused social enterprises in addressing complex needs (in Housing, Theory and Society, 2017), with Aslan Tanekenov and Sarah Johnsen, and Homelessness in the UK: Who is most at risk? (Housing Studies, 2017), with Glen Bramley. |
Mark Shucksmith is Professor of Planning and Director of the Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University. Mark was awarded the OBE in 2009 for services to rural development and to crofting. By background Mark is a rural sociologist, and his research interests span poverty and social exclusion in rural areas, rural development, agricultural policy, and affordable rural housing. He is a Trustee of ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) and was a Commissioner at the Commission for Rural Communities/ Countryside Agency from 2005-13. He was appointed in 2007-08 by the Scottish Government to Chair the Committee of Inquiry into Crofting, whose recommendations led to the Crofting Reform Act 2010. Mark was Vice-President of the International Rural Sociological Association from 2004-08 and was Programme Chair for the European Society of Rural Sociology Congress in 2015.
Recent books include the Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies (2016) and Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK (Routledge, 2012), both with David Brown, and Comparing Rural Development. Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe (Routledge, 2009), edited together with Arnar Árnason and Jo Vergunst. |