DR. SIMON BRADFORD is Reader in Social Science in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care and Director of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at Brunel University, UK. Prior to working at Brunel University, he worked for 13 years in residential social work and youth and community work. He has published widely in books and academic journals in the field of education, social policy and young people. He has worked as an external examiner at a number of other higher education institutions.

• Sociology Matters: Sociological Perspectives and Young PeopleGrowing Up in the Present: From 1945 to the 2000sGrowing Up in Public and Private: Youth, Transition and Identity-makingBeing Similar and Different: Young People and Social DifferenceBeing Social: Complying and TransgressingBeing Somewhere: Youth, Space and PlaceLiving in a World of Change and Constancy: Globalisation, Citizenship and Young PeopleDoes Sociology Matter?

DR. SIMON BRADFORD is Reader in Social Science in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care and Director of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at Brunel University, UK. Prior to working at Brunel University, he worked for 13 years in residential social work and youth and community work. He has published widely in books and academic journals in the field of education, social policy and young people. He has worked as an external examiner at a number of other higher education institutions.

• Sociology Matters: Sociological Perspectives and Young PeopleGrowing Up in the Present: From 1945 to the 2000sGrowing Up in Public and Private: Youth, Transition and Identity-makingBeing Similar and Different: Young People and Social DifferenceBeing Social: Complying and TransgressingBeing Somewhere: Youth, Space and PlaceLiving in a World of Change and Constancy: Globalisation, Citizenship and Young PeopleDoes Sociology Matter?

DR. SIMON BRADFORD is Reader in Social Science in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care and Director of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at Brunel University, UK. Prior to working at Brunel University, he worked for 13 years in residential social work and youth and community work. He has published widely in books and academic journals in the field of education, social policy and young people. He has worked as an external examiner at a number of other higher education institutions.

• Sociology Matters: Sociological Perspectives and Young PeopleGrowing Up in the Present: From 1945 to the 2000sGrowing Up in Public and Private: Youth, Transition and Identity-makingBeing Similar and Different: Young People and Social DifferenceBeing Social: Complying and TransgressingBeing Somewhere: Youth, Space and PlaceLiving in a World of Change and Constancy: Globalisation, Citizenship and Young PeopleDoes Sociology Matter?