Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI
website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Emeritus Prof. Nigel Parton
Emeritus Prof. Nigel Parton
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Editor-in-Chief
School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Interests: social problems and social welfare; child protection and child welfare; social work; social policy
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Fawcett
Prof. Dr. Barbara Fawcett
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Section Editor-in-Chief
School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, 141 St James Road, Glasgow G4 0LT, UK
Interests: feminism; older age; mental health; disability
* Section: Gender Studies
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Prof. Dr. Peter Hopkins
Prof. Dr. Peter Hopkins
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Section Editor-in-Chief
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE17RU, UK
Interests: childhood and youth studies; social, cultural and political geography
Prof. Dr. Daniel McCarthy
Prof. Dr. Daniel McCarthy
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Sociology, University Of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH,UK
Interests: areas of policing; inter-agency working; prison/family effects and incarceration
* Section: Crime and Justice
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pickel
Prof. Dr. Andreas Pickel
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Politics, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, Canada
Interests: global and comparative political economy; nationalism and ethnicity; political sociology; philosophy of social science; European Union; Cuba; United States
* Section: Contemporary Politics and Society
Prof. Dr. Bernd Reiter
Prof. Dr. Bernd Reiter
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: comparative politics; Latin America; Africa
* Section: International Relations
Prof. Dr. Xiaoling Shu
Prof. Dr. Xiaoling Shu
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8701, USA
Interests: social stratification; gender; quality of life; quantitative methods; life course; social demography; comparative studies; knowledge discovery & data mining
* Section: Family Studies
Prof. Dr. Margaret Alston
Prof. Dr. Margaret Alston
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Editorial Board Member
School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Interests: gender; climate and environmental disasters; rural women and social work
Prof. Dr. Georgios Antonopoulos
Prof. Dr. Georgios Antonopoulos
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK
Interests: criminology; organised crime; illegal markets
Prof. Dr. Alan Bairner
Prof. Dr. Alan Bairner
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Editorial Board Member
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
Interests: political ideologies; sport and politics; sport; nationalism and national identities; sport celebrity; sport and place; sport and literature; sport and society in China
Prof. Dr. David Barker
Prof. Dr. David Barker
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Editorial Board Member
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Interests: American politics; public opinion; electoral politics; political behavior; political representation; political communication
Prof. Dr. Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom
Prof. Dr. Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Interests: comparative political behavior; political psychology; religion; morality; immigration; conflict; urban politics; behavioral public administration
Prof. Dr. Denis Bernardeau-Moreau
Prof. Dr. Denis Bernardeau-Moreau
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Editorial Board Member
University of Lille, Departement Sport and health, Multidisciplinary Sport, Health and Society Research Unit. Lille, 59000, France.
Interests: Sociology of organization, Sociology of association and volunteering, Sociology of sport and leisure.
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Prof. Dr. Richard E. Bilsborrow
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Bilsborrow
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Interests: demography (migration, fertility); land use and environment; economic development; surveys/sampling and data collection
Prof. Dr. Morten Blekesaune
Prof. Dr. Morten Blekesaune
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Agder, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway
Interests: longitudinal and comparative data on life-course transition and how people adapt to life course transitions
Dr. Francis Danso Boateng
Dr. Francis Danso Boateng
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
Interests: policing; comparative criminology; victimization; terrorism; homeland security
Prof. Dr. Susan D. Boon
Prof. Dr. Susan D. Boon
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: interpersonal relationships; the dark side of relationships; revenge; forgiveness; unforgiveness; infidelity
Prof. Dr. Philippe Bourgois
Prof. Dr. Philippe Bourgois
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: social inequality; violence; substance abuse; incarceration; homelessness; mental illness; ethnic segregation/conflict; HIV; urban anthropology; US inner-city, Central America and the Caribbean
Prof. Antonio Bova
Prof. Antonio Bova
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Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy
Interests: psychological concern for social interactions at different levels (individual, interpersonal, intra- and inter-group, organizational, communitarian, cultural, institutional); the study of argumentation in contexts characterized by a large prevalence of interpersonal interactions; conversation analysis; family socialization and parent-child conflicts; classroom discussions
Prof. Dr. Julia Brannen
Prof. Dr. Julia Brannen
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Editorial Board Member
UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London WC1H 0AL, UK
Interests: research methodology (qualitative methods; mixed methods; biographical methods; comparative case analysis); sociology of families; generations; food in families; migration; poverty
Prof. Dr. Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Prof. Dr. Belinda Brooks-Gordon
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK
Interests: forensic psychology; gender; sexualities; evidence-based policy
Prof. Dr. Nik Brown
Prof. Dr. Nik Brown
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Editorial Board Member
Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York, York YO10 4DJ, UK
Interests: biopolitics; sociology and politics of biology and medicine; futures and the sociology of expectation; risk and biotechnology; biopolitics of immunity, immune systems and immunological technologies
Prof. Dr. Maria Bucur
Prof. Dr. Maria Bucur
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Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Interests: history; Romania; gender
Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés
Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071 Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Interests: journalism; political communication; social media; digital journalism; social influence; digital media
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Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: general sociology
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Division of Education, School of Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom (postal address: Gateway House, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Interests: qualitative research methods (particularly mobile methodologies and multi-species ethnography); contemporary social and political theory (complexity approaches, feminisms, new materialism, political ecologism, critical posthumanism); sociology of difference and intersectional inequalities; citizenship and education; critical animal studies (companion species, farmed animals, feminist approaches); critical pedagogy (eco pedagogy, new materialism, decolonisation)
Prof. Dr. Kevin Cullinane
Prof. Dr. Kevin Cullinane
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Editorial Board Member
School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: logistics; transport economics; international trade; supply chain management; distribution; networks
Prof. Dr. George J. Sefa Dei
Prof. Dr. George J. Sefa Dei
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada
Interests: social justice; anti-racism education; sociology of race and ethnicity; indigenous knowledge and decolonization; fanonian and anti-colonial studies
Dr. Pierre Desrochers
Dr. Pierre Desrochers
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Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
Interests: energy policy; food policy; economic development; technological innovation; business and technology history
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Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Interests: abolitionist theory and praxis; racial justice; social movements; radical social work; family policing; child welfare