Maddie Breeze University of Strathclyde United Kingdom
Maddie Breeze is Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde. Maddie’s book Seriousness in Women’s Roller Derby: Gender, Organisation, and Ambivalence was awarded the 2016 British Sociological Association Philip Abram’s Memorial Prize and she has researched and published on power in heterosexual relationships, gender and sport, young people’s political participation, feminist academic work, ‘imposter syndrome’ in higher education, and widening participation in higher education. At Strathclyde Maddie is part of the organizing team for the Feminist Research Network, and co-ordinates the interdisciplinary Gender Research Theme.
Yvette Taylor University of Strathclyde United Kingdom
Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde, and has published four sole-authored books based on funded research: Working-class Lesbian Life (2007); Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2009); Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012) and Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2015). Edited titles include Educational Diversity (2012); The Entrepreneurial University (2014); Feeling Academic in The Neoliberal University (2018). Yvette edits the Palgrave Gender and Education Series and co-edits the Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities Series, and is now working on a Norface funded grant, with 4 partner institutions, on Comparing Intersectional Lifecourse Inequalities amongst LGBTQI+ Citizens in Four European Countries’ (CILIA-LGBTQI+).