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Dr David Bedggood

Dave Bedggood is a Marxist sociologist teaching at Auckland with interests spanning Colonisation/de-colonisation, women's oppression, Marxist theory and class politics. He is currently actively researching social class and social movements in Latin America.

Dr Chris Brickell
Chris Brickell is Senior Lecturer in the Gender Studies Programme at Otago University. He has published widely in the areas of sociological and gender theory, as well as sexuality and consumer culture. Chris is currently writing a history of gay male identity in New Zealand.

Professor Ian Carter

Ian Carter is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland. Research interests include rural sociology, the sociology of literature and the sociology of railways. Publications include Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post War Years (1990), Gadfly: The Life and Times of James Shelley (1993) and Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity (2001). His new book is British Railway Enthusiasm (2007).

Professor Roger Dale

Roger Dale taught sociology of education at the UK Open University from 1970-1989, when he moved to become Professor of Education at the University of Auckland. Since taking early retirement from Auckland in 2002, he has been teaching and researching in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, and founding editor of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Mr Douglas Hoey

Douglas Hoey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland. His research interests are social theory, the sociology of computing and the sociology of ethnicity. His PhD research is on the history of computing with particular emphasis on invention and software.

Dr Mike Lloyd

Mike Lloyd is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. His published research has strayed far and wide, from male infertility to yoga, swimming and body modification, from fire safety and industrial accidents to problem gambling and the sociology of humour. He claims to be an expert on nothing, but is prepared to be interested in almost anything.

Professor Peter T. Manicas

Peter T. Manicas is currently Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Professor of Sociology. He has published widely in the social sciences including, The Death of the State (1974), A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1987), War and Democracy (1989), A Realist Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2006), several edited books, and many articles in journals in sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology, and history.

Dr Tracey McIntosh

Tracey McIntosh is of Maori descent (Tuhoe) and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland. Her research interests include the sociology of death and dying, systems of belief, processes of marginalization and exteriority and identity construction. She currently teaches courses in the Sociology of Death, the Sociology of Crime, the Sociology of Incarceration, the Sociology of Religion and the Sociology of Systematic Suffering. In 2005 she was one of the coeditors of the book New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, Wellington : Victoria University Press.

Mr Aaron Norgrove

Aaron Norgrove is a PhD Candidate and Tutor in the Department of Sociology, the University of Auckland. His graduate work centres on the connections between New Media, Technology and Ethics, with particular emphasis on the methodological issues that arise from the sociological analysis of these domains.

Dr Rhonda Shaw

Rhonda Shaw teaches Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has had work published on the sociology of ethics and morality, mothering and maternity, and gift-giving practices including gamete donation and surrogate pregnancy.

Mr Michael Stevens

Michael Stevens is currently a PhD Candidate and Tutor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland. He is carrying out qualitative research on the social and cultural context of HIV infection amongst gay men. His academic interests include the sociology of HIV/AIDS, sexuality, identity, the internet, urbanisation, death and dying, and Bourdieu. He has previously published work on urbanisation and gay identity in Auckland. He was Chair of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation for 4 years and has been involved in gay activism for a number of years.

Dr Martin Sullivan

Martin Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies and Social Policy at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. He is editor of the New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies. He is a member of the Health Research Council’s Injury & Rehabilitation Portfolio Advisory Group and a Ministerial appointment to the National Ethics Advisory Committee.

Dr Ivanica Vodanovich

Ivanica Vodanovich is a Member of the New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal and former Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in development projects, social impact studies and social research in Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Niger, Tunisia and Kiribati. She has also worked with several United Nations and inter-governmental agencies including FAO, OECD and UNESCO.