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Alice Edwards

Description
International refugee law and refugee rights. Detention of refugees and asylum-seekers. Social security benefits and/or rights to work for refugees/asylum-seekers. Repatriation of rejected asylum-seekers. Women's rights. Violence against women, particularly refugee women.

Dr David Appleby

Description
British civil wars 1642–51, 17th-century British history generally (especially social, religious, military, crime and punishment aspects.)

Dr Peter Gates

Description
Mathematics education and pupil attainment. Mathematics attainment and pupils' social class. Mathematics curriculum and social exclusion of pupils from lower socio-economic groups. Mathematics social justice and education. Mathematics and the transition to the workplace. The role of information technology in exclusion and inclusion. Parental involvement in schools. Teacher education and professional development. Social class and educational attainment. Access to higher education by pupils from working class backgrounds.

Professor Bruce Stafford

Description
Policy evaluation. Social security, especially the delivery and implementation of initiatives and welfare to work policies. Disability issues, notably the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the New Deal for Disabled People.

Professor Charles Watkins

Description
Rural land management. History of the British landscape. History of forestry in Britain and Europe. History of agriculture. Wildlife conservation. Conservation of the black poplar. Social change in the British countryside. The effect of farming on the rural landscape and wildlife. Historic parks and gardens. Public access to the countryside. Landscape history of Liguria. Conservation of Sherwood forest.

Professor John W Morgan

Description
Commonwealth affairs, member of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission for the UK. International education and development, member of the National Steering Committee, UK National Commission for UNESCO. Political economy of education; human and social capital development; education, migration, citizenship and human rights; peace education and conflict resolution.

Professor Nick Manning

Description
Social change, social policy and poverty in Russia. Mental health policy in the UK, including personality disorders, security for sufferers, violence, and therapeutic communities. European social policy.

Professor Robert Dingwall

Description
Regulation of genetic science and industry. The social impact of new genetic technologies. Civil justice reform. Divorce mediation. Transplant ethics, including xenotransplantation. Urban myths. Heatwaves and epidemics - early warning and detection of major health problems.

Professor Saul Becker

Description
Young carers — children who provide care, support and supervision to other family members who are ill, disabled, have mental health problems, misuse alcohol or drugs, have HIV/AIDS etc. Policy, law and political interventions and services in the UK and internationally. Adult carers (unpaid family carers). Children caring for parents with HIV/AIDS in the UK and Tanzania.

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