Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She approaches a sociology of walls from a symbolic interactionist perspective.  She is currently working on a book about the Inuit in the far north of Canada and their housing. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, she examines their relationship with their walls, space and place, and how they move through the landscapes of their everyday lives. Van den Scott also has an interest in the sociology of time and is currently teaching and writing on this subject as well. Her methodological approach includes ethnography, interviews, and visual methods such as photography and cognitive mapping. Her university homepage can be accessed on: http://www.mun.ca/soc/faculty/faculty-profiles/lisajovandenscott.php

Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Public Ethnography at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. Phillip is an ethnographer working across the fields of social and cultural geographies, cultural studies, and qualitative sociology. His research in the Nordic regions of the world has taken place in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Previous projects there have examined off-gird living and voluntary simplicity, ice roads, and being "out on the land." His current research examines notions of wild nature and related practices and assemblages and for that project he has travelled, and will be travelling, to the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Greenland. 

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (born 1971) is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is concerned with topics such as: crime, utopia, ethics, death, dying and immortality, palliative care, qualitative methods and social theory. He has written and/or edited more than 50 books. Recent book publications include: Utopia: Social Theory and the Future (edited, 2012),Deconstructing Death (edited, 2013), Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences (edited, 2014), The Social Theory of Erving Goffman (2014),The Poetics of Crime (edited 2014), Liquid Criminology (edited, 2016), Beyond Bauman (edited, 2016), Postmortal Society (edited, forthcoming),The Interactionist Imagination (edited, forthcoming), Emotions and Everyday Life (edited, forthcoming), and Cultural and Critical Interactionism(edited, forthcoming). His university homepage can be accessed on: http://personprofil.aau.dk/102117

Dr. Ben Crewe is Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre and a Reader in Penology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. He has written widely about prisons and imprisonment, including his (2009) book The Prisoner Society (Oxford University Press). He is currently undertaking a major, European Research Council funded study, titled 'Penal policymaking and the prisoner experience: a comparative analysis’, the basic aim of which is to interrogate the ‘Nordic exceptionalism’ thesis, as it relates to the conditions and experience of imprisonment. The study will  involve extensive fieldwork in England & Wales and Norway, with female prisoners, imprisoned sex offenders, mainstream male prisoners, and prisoners being held in very secure conditions.

Titus Hjelm is Reader in Sociology at University College London, UK. He specializes in religion, social theory, and social science methodology. His publications include Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion (ed., Bloomsbury, 2015), Social Constructionisms: Approaches to the Study of the Human World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits (ed. with Phil Zuckerman, Routledge, 2013), and Religion and Social Problems (ed., Routledge, 2011). In addition, he has published several books in Finnish and articles in journals such as Acta Sociologica, Critical Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Historical Sociology, Religion, and Social Compass. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Religion in Europe (published by Brill) and the founding chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Sociology of Religion Group. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/titus-hjelm

Professor Sue Scott is a sociologist who has researched and published widely in the areas of gender; sexuality, risk; the body and childhood. She has a particular interest in Interactionist approaches to sexuality and in biographical representations of the gendered self. She retired from full-time work as a senior university manager in order to do more sociology and other things. Sue holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of York, UK. and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Helsinki. She is also a founder and Managing Editor of the online social science magazine Discover Society http://discoversociety.org. See also  https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cws/staff/suescott.html. Sue tweets as @sjsprof

Susie Scott. I am a social theorist with a particular interest in micro-level sociological theory. I specialise in the perspectives of Symbolic Interactionism and Goffman’s dramaturgy, as applied to empirical studies of selfhood, social identity and everyday life. My books include Shyness and Society (Palgrave, 2007), Making Sense of Everyday Life (Polity, 2009), Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Palgrave, 2011), and Negotiating Identity (Polity, 2015). I am currently developing 'the sociology of nothing', as a new area of research, and writing a book called Doing Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness as Social Action (Palgrave, forthcoming 2018). I have written many journal articles from a Symbolic Interactionist or Goffmanian perspective about substantive topics, including shyness, mental health, total institutions and social interaction in swimming pools. My funded research projects include the sociology of shyness (ESRC), shyness and interactive art (EPSRC), risk and treatability in personality disorders (Wellcome Trust) and asexual identities and practices of intimacy (Leverhulme Trust). I am also, of course, very interested in Nordic cultures, Scandinavian languages (I'm learning Swedish) and Anglo-Nordic comparative studies - hence creating this research network!

Sarah Scuzzarello is a Research Fellow in Cross-national Comparative Politics at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR). Her research focuses mainly on comparative politics with a focus on the politics of citizenship, migration and integration. Sarah’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing from politics and political psychology and she has conducted extensive fieldwork in Sweden, the UK and Italy.

Her most recent research project (“How migrants identify with their societies of settlement: a comparison of migrant communities in Malmö and Ealing (London)” ref. nr. VR2011-1166) addresses questions of collective identity formation among migrants relative to their social integration trajectories, and how these are shaped by the institutional and discursive contexts of the cities where they reside. This project develops and moves beyond her earlier doctoral research, titled Caring Multiculturalism. Local Immigrant Policies and Narratives of Integration in Malmö, Birmingham, and Bologna.

Sarah has published original empirically-based research in leading academic journals (e.g. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Political Psychology; Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology), and contributed to volumes published by leading academic presses, including On behalf of Others. The morality of care in a global world, published by Oxford University Press, for which she is the first named editor.

Prior to joining the SCMR, Sarah was Associate Lecturer at the University of Surrey (2014); a Swedish Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow at City University London (2011-2013), a Lecturer in International Relations at Lund University (2010-2011) where she also obtained her PhD in Politics (2010, with distinctions).

Stina Bergman Blix is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. Her main research orientation concerns the sociology of emotions and in particular how people work with their emotions in professional settings. She has studied professional stage actors’ process of creating a role for the stage, and judges’ and prosecutors’ emotion management in court. Her next project is an interdisciplinary collaboration examining the construction of objectivity in judicial decision-making (financed by the Swedish Research Council). Other interests include qualitative methods and dramaturgical theory. She is coordinator of the European Sociological Association Research Network on Emotions (RN11). Personal homepage: http://www.su.se/english/profiles/stbl9370-1.184169; e-mail: stina.bergmanblix@sociology.su.se

Professor Hannah Bradby has been Professor at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University since 2013, having previously held a senior lectureship at the University of Warwick, post-doctoral research grants at the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow and . Her research interrogates the links between identity, structure and health with particular reference to racism, ethnicity and religion. Her most recent paper is entitled ‘Taking story seriously in health sociology’ and will appear in Social Theory and Health and she has a chapter in the The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (editors A. Whitehead et al) entitled ‘Medical migration and the global politics of equality’ (pp 491-507). Current funded research includes ‘Understanding the practice and developing the concept of welfare bricolage’ together with colleagues from Germany, Portugal and the UK and ‘Understanding racism in healthcare: Developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation’, based in Sweden. She is Speciality Chief Editor for Medical Sociology at the open access Sociology Frontiers journal having previously edited the Taylor and Francis journal Ethnicity and Health and the Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series.Together with Professor Sandra Torres, Hannah leads the Research Group on Welfare and Lifecourse, established in 2012 at Uppsala University’s Deptartment of Sociology, which brings together over twenty researchers working on welfare related issues.

Lina Eklund is a sociologist researching and teaching at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research investigates social behaviour in relation to digital technologies and current projects concern anonymity in online gaming, digital gaming as museum culture, and the role of digital technology in managing families. She is the principal investigator of the Stockholm Internet Research Group.​ Web-page: http://www.sirg.se​

Marie Sépulchre is a PhD Candidate at the Sociology Department of Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests centre on citizenship, disability, activism and digital media. Her current research is about the construction of citizenship in relation to disability. In particular, she looks at how citizenship is constructed by disability rights activists claiming full participation for disabled people through online activism. E-mail: marie.sepulchre@soc.uu.se; Web page: http://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N13-1402; Twitter: @SepulchreMarie

Professor Sandra Torres is a critical social gerontologist who holds a Professorship in Sociology and the Chair in Social Gerontology at Uppsala University. Her research problematizes old age-related constructs; shed critical light on commonly used methods in health and social care and deconstruct some of the taken for granted assumptions that guide policy and practice for the older segments of our population. Her main contributions to research on aging and old age are based on studies that have aimed to expand the social gerontological imagination through the use of knowledge gathered in the sociology of aging, the sociology of ethnicity/ migration as well as social work and the caring sciences. Sandra leads – together with Prof. Hannah Bradby - the Research Group on Welfare and Lifecourse at Uppsala University’s Dept. of Sociology; a research group that brings together over twenty researchers working on welfare related issues since 2012 (www.soc.uu.se/research/research-groups/Welfare/). She leads also The Social Gerontology Group which is comprised of researchers in social gerontology from Uppsala University, Stockholm University and Gävle University College (www.soc.uu.se/research/research-groups/Welfare/the-social-gerontology-group/).

Sandra has represented Sweden in several research networks financed by the European Science Foundation and NORFACE-ERA NET. Since 2016 she leads – together with Prof. Ariela Lowenstein (University of Haifa) – the Working Group on Civic Rights that is part of the COST-initiative on old age and social exclusion entitled RoseNet network. Together with Dr. Allen Glicksman (Philadelphia Aging Corporation) she leads the interest group on International Aging under the auspices of the Gerontological Society of America and is an Officer at Large of the Board of the Research Committee on Aging of the Int’l. Sociological Association. She has recently stepped down as President of the Swedish Gerontological Society (SGS) and as a council member to the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) (she held both of these positions between 2009-2015).

Prof. Torres – who held one of the first European Research Area on Aging FLARE grants (FLARE stands for Future Leader of Aging Research in Europe) - is also one of the founders of, and Associate Editors for, one of the first open-access journals in gerontology: the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life and sits on the Editorial Board Member for established peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Aging Studies, Ethnicity & Health and Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift as well as for recently launched ones such as Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion (re-launched in Sept. of 2015 as Society, Health and Vulnerability). Between 2010-2014 she served also in the Editorial Board of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and in the board of Social Policy and Society (between 2009-2014). Her latest books are edited collections published by Routledge in 2016: Ageing in Contexts of Migration (co-edited with Ute Karl) and Older People and Migration: Challenges for Social Work (co-edited with Sue Lawrence).

 Åsa Wettergren is Associate Professor at the Department of sociology and work science, University of Gothenburg. Her research interest is in the sociology of emotions, investigating the role of emotions in bureaucratic organisations, politics and social movements, and in migration. Current research projects are “Emotions in Court” and ”The Environmental Movement in a Globalized World”, both financed by the Swedish Research Council. Personal website: http://socav.gu.se/english/about-us/staff/?languageId=100001&disableRedirect=true&returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsocav.gu.se%2Fom_institutionen%2Fpersonal%2F%3FuserId%3Dxwetsa&userId=xwetsa