Biographical note

SALLY BAKER Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University, UK HOWARD DAVIS Professor of Social Theory and Institutions in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK GRAHAM DAY Head of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK MARKIETA DOMECKA Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK MARIANA DRAGANOVA Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria MARTA EICHSTELLER Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK LENA INOWLOCKI Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany RUMIANA JELEVA Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgaria SLAVKA KARAKUSHEVA PhD student at Sofia University, Bulgaria KAJA KA?MIERSKA Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland PASQUALE MUSELLA Researcher at University of Naples Federico II, Italy ULRIKE NAGEL Associate Professor of Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany LIIS OJAMÄE Associate Professor at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia KATRIN PAADAM Professor of Sociology at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ELISABETTA PERONE PhD student at University of Naples Federico II, Italy DONA PICKARD Doctoral student at theInstitute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria ANDRZEJ PIOTROWSKI Professor of Sociology at University of Lodz, Poland GERHARD RIEMANN Professor of Social Work at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany ANJA SCHRÖDER-WILDHAGEN Research Assistant at the University of Magdeburg, Germany DIRK SCHUBOTZ Research Fellow with ARK, a joint project of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster, UK FRITZ SCHÜTZE was Chair of General Sociology/Microsociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany KRISTEL SIILAK Lecturer at the Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ANTONELLA SPANÒ Professor of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy MARUSKA SVASEK Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast, UK BÄRBEL TREICHEL Visiting Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany KATARZYNA WANIEK Lecturer in the Department of Sociology of Culture, University of Lodz, Poland