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Christopher Dennison, PhD, is an assistant professor in the UB Department of Sociology. Most broadly, his research examines the association between intergenerational social mobility and changes in antisocial behavior across the life course. Other research interests include individual and 鈥渟pillover鈥� effects associated with involvement in the criminal justice system. His most recent project examines risky behavior among first- and continue-generation college students and how this relates to graduation.

Education:
PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2017
MA, University of Toledo, 2013 
BA, Miami University, 2011

Dr Katie Bales is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She specialises in forced migration, work and the welfare state. She has been exploring the issues that impact the lives of asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK 鈥� including their working rights, access to employment and how the law regards immigrants. Katie has also examined low wages paid to detainees in immigration centres and access to education for asylum-seekers. She is currently working on a new study of international perspectives on detention centres.

Katie has undertaken research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, examining the State's compliance with human rights obligations (with a particular focus on welfare reform and the immigration detention of children). In addition to her research and teaching, Katie is co-editor for the Futures of Work blogsite with Bristol University Press. She is also a trustee for the Bristol City of Sanctuary Charity and a founding member of the Sanctuary Scholarships working group which helped to establish a scholarship scheme for asylum-seekers and refugees seeking access to Higher Education.

Katie holds a PhD in Law from Northumbria University.

Accomplishments:

2017 - Excellence Award for Sanctuary Scholarship Scheme
2019 - University of Sanctuary Award and Social Mobility Award

Publications:

15/03/2018 - 鈥榁oice鈥� and 鈥楥hoice鈥� in Modern Working Practices: Problems with the Taylor Review, Industrial Law Journal
04/07/2018 - Unfree labour in immigration detention: exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce, Economy and Society
27/11/2018 - The 'future' of work? A call for the recognition of continuities in challenges for conceptualising work and its regulation, University of Bristol Law School
18/08/2019 - Michael Adler: Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment? Benefit Sanctions in the UK, Journal of Law and Society
30/09/2019 - The Immigration Industrial Complex: A Global Perspective on 'Unfree Labour' in immigration detention, Futures of Work
01/04/2020 - COVID-19 and the Futures of Work, Futures of Work

You can find out more about Katie on her University of Bristol staff profile at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Katie-Bales-a577005b-dfe6-4f5b-ae38-3f70573c6e2b/

Katie can be found on Twitter at KatieBales2.

Professor David Gordon is a global specialist on how deprivation is measured. His metrics have been adopted by the EU and used in target-setting to reduce poverty across Europe and in other parts of the world including Africa. Internationally he has worked with the WHO and UNICEF. He has produced reports on issues such as the child-friendliness of governments across Africa, the levels of poverty outside of cities, malnutrition in India, health inequalities in Hong Kong and ending the Poor Law in Guernsey. He is currently exploring the links between climate change and poverty. Professor Gordon has written and edited more than 200 books, papers and reports on issues of poverty and social justice. He was a member of the UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group) and contributed to its Compendium of Best Practice in Poverty Measurement. He advises both the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the Commonwealth Secretariat on poverty and hunger issues amongst young people.