Alan Roulstone
E-mail: a.roulstone@leeds.ac.uk ou roul@btinternet.com

Roulstone is currently Professor of Disability Studies, University of Leeds and was previously Professor in Disability and Inclusion (Social Work), Northumbria University and was prior to that was professor of applied social sciences and Co-lead for Research in the Health and Life Sciences Faculty at the De Montfort University, Leicester. Before his move to Leicester he was head of social work at Sunderland University and also Head of Applied Health and Social Research. Roulstone’s first senior appointment was as Depute Directorship in the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow. He was previously at Sunderland and Staffordshire universities variously in sociology, law and social work. He has been involved a range of research projects around disability and social care, ageing, disability, disablist hate crime, social exclusion, transitions to work and adulthood, chronic illness, new technologies and social futures, older people, and disability law. Funders include The Leverhulme Trust, SCIE, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Department of Health, Disability Rights Commission (now EHRC), European Commission, Economic and Social Research Council, Regional Development Agencies, and UNESCO. Alan had worked across a range of inter-disciplinary boundaries-his current funded work, for example, is interfacing with health economics, development studies, social policy, social work and social psychology. Professor Roulstone has produced over 90 isbn/issn publications in the field of social ex/inclusion, disability, equality, crime, work and employment policy. He has recently completed his 11th book (Routledge) and has published with a range of other tier one publishers and has a further two emerging in 2014.

Roulstone plays an increasing role in policy and professional practice and has unprecedented links with key practice and policy-making bodies and organisations of disabled people. He has presented in over 40 countries worldwide and has keynoted at a number of international and national peer reviewed events. He is an executive editor of the internationally leading disability journal ‘Disability and Society’, is a consulting editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Studies and was a review editor of the World Health Organisation’s ‘World Report on Disability’ (2010). He has reviewed for the journals: Australian Journal of Human Rights, Evidence and Policy, Social Policy and Society, Journal; of Social Policy, Benefits, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Interprofessional Care, Disability Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Public Health, Social Problems, International Equal Opportunities Review and Social Science and Medicine. He was invited co-editor of a themed edition of Social Work Education on Disability Studies and the Social Work Curriculum in 2010 and was invited editorial for Critical and Radical Social Work and also Social Work and Social Sciences Review. He completed research which fed into the UK Parliamentary Counsel’s construction of the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 and the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. He is currently working with the Social Survey Division of the UK Office for National Statistics on trialling a new module of questions on disability for major social surveys. Alan was plenary speaker at the 2008 Disability Studies Association, an international peer reviewed conference, and was keynote speaker for the governmental invitation only Disability Equality: Towards 2025 conference (2009). Alan was recently invited speaker at the Stellenbosch University Disability Studies seminar series and also keynote speaker at the World Assembly of Disabled People’s International, Durban, October 2011. Alan was invited to contribute to the recent Social Policy Association ‘Future of Welfare’ publication (SPA, 2010).

Susan Balderston
E‐mail: s.balderston@lancaster.ac.uk or susiebalderston@icloud.com

Ruth Bashall
E‐mail: director@staysafe-east.org.uk

Director of Stay Safe East, an organisation run by disabled people, based in East London, United Kingdom. Stay Safe East provides long-term advocacy and support to Deaf and disabled victims and survivors of hate crime, domestic and sexual violence and other human rights abuses. Stay Safe East works for a change in policy and practice, and for justice for Deaf and disabled victims. The organization works in partnership with the police, prosecution services and local government and provides policy advice. Stay Safe East also provides training, casework organizational advice to statutory and voluntary organizations working with victims of crime. www.staysafe-east.org.uk

Ruth has been an activist for human rights all her life, as a feminist and anti-racist campaigner, and for the past 20 years as a disability rights advocate. She has been working for the past ten years to put hate crime against disabled people on the agenda. Ruth was previously Co-Chair of the Disability Independent Advisory Group to London’s Metropolitan Police. She was a member of the Advisory Group to the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission on their major investigation into targeted harassment against disabled people, and an adviser on disability hate crime to the Association of Chief Police Officers.

Ruth Bashall was raised in France and is bilingual. She is an experienced trainer on disability equality, hate crime and domestic violence and has trained professionals in the UK and France. She contributed to ‘Getting Away with Murder – disabled people’s experience of hate crime in the UK”, a ground breaking report published in 2009. Ruth is co-author of ‘Disabled Women and Domestic Violence - Responding to the Experiences of Survivors” (2012). She is currently a member of the UK Steering Group of a major European research project on violence against disabled women and girls, coordinated by the University of Vienna.

Paula Pinto
E-mail:ppinto@iscsp.utl.pt
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Maria José Magalhães [a confirmar]
E-mail: mjm@fpce.up.pt
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Fernando Fontes (CES)
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Bruno Sena Martins (CES)
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