Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been coordinator of a number of large, collaborative research projects including the FP7 MYPLACE project. She has published widely on youth and on post-socialist societies including recently co-authoring Punk in Russia: Cultural Mutation from the Useless to the Moronic (2014) and Russia s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives (2010).
Gary Pollock is Professor and Head of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Focused on youth research for more than 20 years, Pollock s current interests are in utilizing survey data to examine young people in society in terms of their social and political outlook as well as their employment and family trajectories. He is co-editor of Young People in Risk Society (2002).