Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Interests: children and young people in state care; adult care leavers from child welfare systems; youth transitions in challenging circumstances; social work with children, young people and families; social support for children and young people

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Institute for Work Science, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Interests: sociology of work and organizations; digital transformation of work and employment; sharing economy; labor relations; (European ans German) industrial relations; company networks; precarious employment

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Department of Business Administration and Economics, University of Virginia-Wise, Wise, VA, USA
Interests: consumer behavior; marketing; advertising; motion pictures; communications; DNA genealogy; colonial North America; American Jewish history; semiotics; social psychology

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La Follette School of Public Affairs, Department of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: effects of social security and pension on economic status after retirement and widowhood; adequacy of retirement saving; happiness and financial well-being; evaluation of financial literacy programs

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Department of History & Politics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
Interests: sex-work policy; trafficking policy
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1. Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
2. Sejong Institute, Seongnam 06579, Republic of Korea
Interests: conflicts; conflict resolution; conflict escalation; war; peace research; military interventions; state fragility and its effect on conflict, organised violence
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Centre for Lifelong Learning, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Interests: child poverty; social policy; economics; early childhood interventions
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Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
Interests: guns, specifically examining issues related to racism; attitudes towards immigrants; gun ownership; gun control

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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Interests: policing; police reform; hate crime

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Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples "Parthenope", 80132 Napoli, Italy
Interests: labour market dynamics; NEETs; school-to-work transition; economic inequality; gender gap

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School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Interests: social work; adoptions

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School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, The Scores, St. Andrews KY16 9AJ, UK
Interests: children’s rights; child labour; young people and politics; India; Scotland; the politics of race and racism; qualitative research

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Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden
Interests: migration and the precarisation of labour; citizenship; multiculturalism; ethnicity, populism and racism; new and old social movements

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Associate Professor, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Interests: family engagement; school, family, and community partnerships; principal leadership; program evaluation; student attendance; parental/family perceptions
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Department of Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Interests: social work and theorising biopolitics; neoliberalism and social work; community social work; Roma people and migrants; the politics of social work; critique of humanism and more than human studies
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School of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BX, UK
Interests: youth geographies; children's geographies; mobilities; creative methods

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Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: critical geography; urban landscapes; Mexico-US borderlands; Latin America; intersectional feminist and critical race studies; social movements; post-colonial and decolonial studies


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School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Interests: social participation of older adults; quality of life in older adults; age-friendly environments
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GRITIM-UPF, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: migration; urban governance; interculturalism; collective memory; diversity; citizenship; migration qualitative research

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Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: public policy; policy process theories; political economy; welfare state; economic intervention; policy knowledge
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