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Paul Leduc Browne has been the Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec
en Outaouais in Gatineau, Québec, Canada, since 2002. Before that he was a Senior Research
Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Ottawa for eight years. He has also
taught at the Universities of Sussex, Ottawa, and Regina. He is the author and editor of several
books and other publications, including Unsafe Practices: Restructuring and Privatization in
Ontario Health Care; The Commodity of Care: Home Care Reform in Ontario; Love in a Cold
World: The Voluntary Sector in an Age of Cuts; and (with Douglas Moggach) The Social
Question and the Democratic Revolution.

Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Professor for Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany,
is currently the President of ISA RC 53, Sociology of Childhood, and coordinates the section
‘Sociology of Childhood’ in the German Sociological Association. Main research activities
concern political programs and debates about children, expert interventions into children’s lives
and families, scientific images of children, and socialization of self.
Philippe Couton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
His areas of interest include immigration, immigrant social and political engagement, political
sociology, and labour relations.
Christopher Dandeker is the Professor of Military Sociology in the Department of War
Studies in the School of Social Science and Public Policy (where he served as Head of School
from 2005 to 2008) at King’s College, London, UK. He is a co-Director of the King’s Centre
for Military Health Research as well as a member of the executive committee of RC 01. Recent
publications include, ‘Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-
First Century Armed Services’ in K Haggerty and R V Ericson (eds.), The New Politics of
Surveillance and Visibility, University of Toronto Press, 2006, 225–249.
Ann Denis is the Professor of Sociology in the Département de sociologie et anthropologie,
Université d’Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada. Presently a member of the Executive Committee of ISA
(2006–2010), she was its Vice-President for Research (2002–2006), and is an active member of
Research Committees 5 and 32. Current and recent research interests include the effect of state
policies on women (and their work) in the Commonwealth Caribbean and among immigrants in
Canada, the use of the Internet by minority young people in Barbados and francophone Ontario,
and the effects of society-centered educational practices on women in engineering.
Robert Dingwall is Professor and Director at the Institute for Science and Society, University
of Nottingham, UK. He is Secretary of the Research Committee on Sociology of Health (RC
15), ISA. His most recent book (with Elizabeth Murphy) is Qualitative Methods and Health
Policy Research (Aldine Transaction 2003) and he has recently edited a four-volume collection
of classic works, Qualitative Health Research, published by Sage in 2008. He is currently
co-editing (with Ivy Bourgeault and Raymond De Vries) a Handbook of Qualitative Health
Research, due for publication by Sage in 2009.
Joseph F. Donnermeyer is a Professor in the Rural Sociology program at The Ohio State
University, USA, with a specialty in the study of rural crime, and the International Research
Coordinator for the Rural Crime Centre, University of New England, New South Wales,
Australia. Dr. Donnermeyer is the author/co-author of numerous journal articles, book chapters
and books on rural crime, co-editor of a recently published book on Crime in Rural Australia