Autor: Dr Rosemary Rae Dr Sharon Wray

Dr Sharon Wray is a Reader in Sociology, Associate Director of the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, and Chair of the Huddersfield Intergenerational Research Group at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests include ageing and the life-course, intergenerational relationships, grand-parenting, ethnic and cultural diversity, and health and physical activity. She is current editor of the International Journal of Aging and Society. Her work appears in for example, Sociology, Sociological Review, Social Theory and Health, and Migration Letters. She is the co-author, with Mary Maynard, Haleh Afshar and Myfanwy Franks, of Women in Later Life: Exploring Race and Ethnicity (McGraw-Hill, Open University, 2008). Dr Rosemary Rae is Course Leader for the MSc in Health and Social Care programme at Huddersfield University. Her background includes working in the voluntary sector, campaigning for more nursery provision for children under five, and then working within that sector. After qualifying as a social worker in 1982, she spent several years working for local authority social services departments in the UK. She recently completed a doctorate looking at the role of service user involvement in social work student admissions. She has published in the area of children”s rights and service user involvement.