Lucy Hadfield is Research Fellow on the Making of Modern Motherhoods project. Lucy has been involved in social research and consultancy projects since she completed her MA in European Studies in 2002. She has worked for the NSPCC on the project: 'Safeguarding Disabled Children in Residential Schools' and more recently at London South Bank University on the JRF project: 'Sibling Relationships in Middle Childhood'. She has worked on various youth and education projects for disabled children over the past eight years and as a research consultant for Triangle since 2002. Her interest in disability and identity has inspired her to work on a PHD: 'Disabled Motherhoods' alongside the MoMM project
Dr. Mary Jane Kehily is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University, U.K. She has written widely on issues of gender and sexuality, narrative and identity and popular culture and is author of Sexuality, Gender and Schooling, shifting agendas in social learning , (Routledge: 2002) as well as two edited volumes, An Introduction to Childhood Studies (Open University Press: 2004) and, with Joan Swann, Children's Cultural Worlds (Wiley: 2003)
Sue Sharpe is a freelance social researcher with over 30 years experience in qualitative social research. Her main interests have been the situation and experiences of young people, and also family relationships. She has carried out research and written books on these areas, which include the lives of working mothers, teenage mothers, and father-daughter relationships, as well as the views and expectations of young women and men. She recently did a research study on young mothers' therapeutic needs. As well as working on the Making of Modern Motherhoods project at the Open University, she has been involved for several years in a longitudinal project following the lives of a sample of young people, based at London South Bank University where she is also a Visiting Fellow.
Dr. Rachel Thomson has been involved in social research since 1988 and has worked at the University of Manchester , the National Children's Bureau and London South Bank University. Since 2003 she has been based at the Open University in the Faculty of Health and Social Care where she teaches in the areas of children, families and young people. Her current research includes the 'Inventing Adulthoods' study, that follows a group of 100 young people's lives as they make the transition to adulthood. Her publications include The male in the head: young people, heterosexuality and power (1998), Youth in society (2003). Rachel is mother of a five year old son and lives in north London.