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Carlene Firmin is Professor of Social Work at Durham University. She previously worked as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, where she developed the Contextual Safeguarding programme. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest black woman to receive an MBE for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK.
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Alan’s background is community work, doing it, managing it, teaching it and researching it. He has also been a social worker, youth worker and a planner of services for children and young people in a local authority. He has written 11 books in this field.
David is a Professor of Sociology in the department. In broader terms, he researches, teaches and writes about culture, media, politics and society. Much of his work has explored how transformations in technology and media have reshaped culture and society.
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Olivier De Schutter is Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
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