Editorial Board
- Gender Studies Section
- Contemporary Politics and Society Section
- Social Economics Section
- Social Policy and Welfare Section
- International Migration Section
- Work, Employment and the Labor Market Section
- Family Studies Section
- Childhood and Youth Studies Section
- Social Stratification and Inequality Section
- International Politics and Relations Section
- Crime and Justice Section
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
Interests: suicide prevention; depression
Interests: sports masculinities; gender and sport; physical activity and wellbeing; physical activity and disability; qualitative methodologies; creative nonfiction
Interests: international law; human rights; sustainability; transitional justice; legal history; rule of law; corruption
Interests: general sociology
Interests: qualitative research methods (particularly mobile methodologies and multi-species ethnography); contemporary social and political theory (complexity approaches, feminisms, new materialism, political ecologism, critical posthumanism); sociology of difference and intersectional inequalities; citizenship and education; critical animal studies (companion species, farmed animals, feminist approaches); critical pedagogy (eco pedagogy, new materialism, decolonisation)
Interests: logistics; transport economics; international trade; supply chain management; distribution; networks
Interests: multiculturalism; social justice; third wave feminism; premarital and marital relationships
Interests: social justice; anti-racism education; sociology of race and ethnicity; indigenous knowledge and decolonization; fanonian and anti-colonial studies
Interests: political sociology; organizational sociology; contentious politics
Interests: energy policy; food policy; economic development; technological innovation; business and technology history
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Interests: abolitionist theory and praxis; racial justice; social movements; radical social work; family policing; child welfare
Interests: internet; online journalism; digitization; journalism history; intellectual property; media history; inequality and public opinion
Interests: medical anthropology; global health; neglected diseases; conflict; migration; refugees; mental health; non-communicable diseases
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Interests: human trafficking; gender; corruption; the environment
Interests: gender; work; care; fathering; parental leave policies; visual methods; ethnography; feminist epistemologies; ecological thinking; genealogies; narrative analysis; historical sociology of concept formation; relational sociology
Interests: migration; gender; families; citizenship; participatory and creative methods
Interests: criminology; juvenile delinquency/justice; organized crime; human trafficking; comparative crime and justice; law enforcement; violence
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Interests: community-based approach; social work; mental health; substance use issues; practice research
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Interests: program evaluation; criminal sentencing; gender and racial disparities in the criminal justice system; juvenile justice and decision making in the juvenile court
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Interests: history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences; transhumanism; science and religion; the future of the university; intellectual property
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Interests: regional unemployment; housing economics; migration
Interests: social science genomics; social stratification; health inequality; bio-ancestry; social construction of racial and ethnic identity
Interests: political leadership; executive politics; political opposition; comparative political institutions; constitutional engineering; West European politics
Interests: criminology; punishment and social control; juvenile justice
Interests: women and families; gender-based violence; advanced group and community work practice; narrative therapy
Interests: sociology of sport; sport media; sport and globalization
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Interests: refugee and migration issues; field methods; Africa; humanitarian assistance; livelihoods in complex emergencies; developing countries
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Interests: international relations; methods; Canadian politics
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Interests: gender studies; social policy; welfare
Interests: gender and family attitudes; LGBTQ+ families; marriage; parenthood; parental leave; work and family