Bio- Joanna Płonka

Joanna Płonka is a psychologist, psychotherapist and a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), with an interest in normative and non-normative sexual development and child sexual abuse. She is in the process of becoming a certified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. 

Bio- Angela Palmer

Dr. Angela Palmer is a research consultant in the area of child welfare and protection in Ireland and an adjunct research fellow at the Geary Institute for Public  Policy, University College Dublin.

Bio-Tina Miller

Tina Miller is a Professor of Sociology at Oxford Brookes University who specialises in policy relevant research, impact and teaching with an expertise in family lives and theorizations/practises of gender. She specialises in micro- focused, longitudinal research on transitional periods in individual and family contexts. This includes in relation to motherhood and fatherhood transitions, parenthood, paid work and […]

Bio-Uwe Uhlendorff

Uwe Uhlendorff is professor for social pedagogy and social work at the Faculty of Education and Psychology/Dortmund University. His research is focused on families in need and social services based on qualitative and quantitative methods.

Bio- Isabelle Albert

Isabelle Albert (psychologist) is a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg in the Institute for Lifespan Development, Family and Culture, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences. Her main research interests are in the field of (cross-)cultural, life-span developmental and family psychology. She has made major contributions to the areas of transgenerational family relations and transmission […]

Bio-Allan Westerling

Allan Westerling is an associate professor in Social Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark. His area of research includes fatherhood and parenthood and generally the issues and troubles of everyday family life. He works with mixed methods and takes a problem oriented, interdisciplinary approach

Bio-Katharina Herlofson

Katharina Herlofson (sociologist) is a researcher at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is co-responsible for the Norwegian Life course, Ageing and Generations Study (NorLAG), and her main research interests include gender and intergenerational family relationships in ageing societies.

Bio- Jorge Gato

Jorge Gato is a Researcher in the Centre for Psychology at University of Porto, with an interest in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals in different contexts, such as school, family, and work. He is a Systemic Family Therapist and an advocate for LGBTQ+ human rights

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