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Dr John Kirk, (BA Hons; MA; D.Phil.), a Senior Research Fellow at the WLRI. He is a specialist in cultural and social theory, with a particular interest in the narrative construction of identity, the relationship between class and other identity formations and the significance of place for understanding identity. He has published two books: Twentieth Century Writing and the British Working Class (University of Wales Press, 2003); Class, Culture and Social Change: On the Trail of the Working Class (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).
Dr Cilla Ross, is a Reader at WLRI. Trained as a historian, Cilla lives in the Yorkshire region. She has been exploring and recording occupational and cultural change through oral history over the last few decades.
Professor Steve Jefferys, BSc(econ), MSc, PhD, Director of the Working Lives Research Institute and Professor of European Employment Relations. He is a specialist in French social relations and wrote ‘Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003).