Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

About

Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies sociology geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Dr Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science working as part of the Great British Class Survey Team. Her previous research focused upon the poor working class and her current research interests relate to the precarious and vulnerable nature of particular groups in our society through insecure housing work social benefits health care and education. She is author of the bestselling Getting by: Estates Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (Policy Press 2015). Professor Simon Winlow is at the Centre for Realist Criminology Teesside University. He has research expertise in both sociology and criminology and has published widely on violence criminal markets and cultures and social political and economic change.