Contributors

Pierre Walthéry

Senior Research Fellow/Research Associate

Senior Research Fellow/Research Associate

Clare Kelliher

Professor of Work and Organisation, Cranfield University

Professor of Work and Organisation, Cranfield University Professor Clare Kelliher is Professor of Work and Organisation at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from London Business School. Her research interests focus on the Changing World of Work, specifically the organisation of work and the management of the employment relationship. She has a long-standing interest in and is renowned for her research work on flexible working arrangements. She has recently directed an Economic and Social Research Council funded project designed to examine how the use of the government’s furlough scheme during the pandemic has influenced opportunities for part-time working. Her research has informed the work of government, policy groups and shaped employer practice, including contributions to the Agile Futures Forum, Engage for Success and the Department of Education’s Flexible Working in Schools project. Clare is the author of numerous journal articles, books and book chapters and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum.

Charlotte Gascoigne

Principal Research Fellow, Cranfield University

Principal Research Fellow, Cranfield University Dr Charlotte Gascoigne is a Principal Research Fellow working on an ESRC-funded research project at Cranfield University about part-time working after the pandemic. She has over 20 years’ experience as a researcher and consultant in flexible working. Her PhD explored how managers and professionals craft their part-time working arrangements. In 2021, she completed a nine-month research project for the CIPD: ‘Flexible working – lessons from the pandemic’. Previously, as Director of Research and Consultancy at the Timewise Foundation, she led research on flexible and part-time working, concentrating particularly on how jobs at different levels are designed in sectors including retail, social care, construction, nursing and teaching, and creating impact through partnerships with employer organisations and government departments.

Richard McCulloch

Senior Lecturer Media and Film, University of Huddersfield

Senior Lecturer Media and Film, University of Huddersfield Richard McCulloch is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film, and joined the University of Huddersfield in January 2016. He has held previous appointments at five other UK universities, most notably Regent’s University London, where he was responsible for overseeing the design of a new Film Studies degree pathway in 2015. He studied Film and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he later went on to complete his MA and PhD. His doctoral research looked at reputation and discourses of quality in relation to Pixar Animation Studios, and he is in currently updating and expanding on his ideas for a forthcoming monograph. Richard is co-director of The World Star Wars Project – a five-year study of the post-Disney Star Wars franchise and its audiences – and he is also on the board of the Fan Studies Network. Research Expertise and Interests Media audiences and reception Fandom and fan cultures Post-Classical Hollywood Branding, Reputation, and Promotional Culture Cult film and television

Harvey Wiltshire

Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Inclusive Pedagogy, Royal Holloway University of London

Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Inclusive Pedagogy, Royal Holloway University of London Harvey Wiltshire is Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, and Inclusive Pedagogy, in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on the significance of blood in Shakespeare’s poetry and drama, and explores the discovery of cardiovascular circulation by William Harvey. He's published on trauma theory and Shakespeare’s narrative poems, Kingship in 'Richard III', tear imagery in the poetry of John Donne, and has recently co-edited a collection of essays exploring the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the humanities, 'Lockdown Cultures: The Arts and Humanities in the Year of the Pandemic, 2020-21' (UCL Press, 2022).

Paul Hodkinson

Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey

Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey Paul Hodkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on fathers and fathering, youth cultures, pathways through adulthood and experiences of digital social media spaces. He is particularly interested in understanding people's experiences of contemporary life course journeys and transitions. His books include 'New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication' (with Ranjana Das), 'Sharing Care: Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting' (with Rachel Brooks), 'Media, Culture and Society', 'Ageing and Youth Cultures' (with Andy Bennett), 'Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes' (with Wolfgang Deicke) and 'Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture'. He is currently co-editor of the journal, Sociology, and was previously co-editor of Sociological Research Online.