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is a writer and filmmaker of dual British and Singaporean heritage whose work focuses on people who challenge the status quo. In 2015 he founded Velvet Joy Productions to explore the lives and work of individuals who have been neglected, marginalised or misrepresented by mainstream media.
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is a Birmingham Fellow in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham, UK. Kayleigh explores issues of poverty, stigma and welfare reform through qualitative and ethnographic research.
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is a lecturer in Sociological Practice at Middlesex University. She brings an innovative approach to research by means of her extensive experience of bringing the academic world and local community together.
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is Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University. He has a long-standing interest in moral economy and has written several books on political economy, inequality, class, and philosophy and ethics.
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grew up in a working-class coal-mining community before becoming an inner-city primary school teacher. She is now Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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is Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She leads JRF’s work on the social and political attitudes of people on low incomes, and chaired the task group of JRF’s strategy to solve UK poverty.
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