OUR EDITORS

Sally R Munt

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, and Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She has been a feminist since 1984, following her expulsion from a religious community for 'questioning authority'. Her many publications include Queer Attachments: the Cultural Politics of Shame (2007), Queer Spiritual Spaces (2010, with Kath Browne and Andrew Yip), and Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality and Gender in British Buddhism (2016, with Sharon Smith and Andrew Yip). Sally has served on many national and international research commissioning panels, and is the recipient of research funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She served as a research project evaluator for the E.U., and has been on many editorial boards for peer-reviewed publications. She has edited 6 books in the fields of gender, sexuality, and cultural studies, most recently The Ashgate Research Companion to Sociocultural Studies of the Paranormal (2013, co-edited with Olu Jenzen). Sally is also qualified in cognitive psychotherapy and psychiatry and is a BABCP Accredited therapist in private practice.

Hanno van Keulen

European Journal of STEM Education

Hanno currently is professor of Leadership in Education at Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from Utrecht University (1995). While teaching laboratory courses to Science undergraduates at Utrecht, he developed an interest in inquiry based teaching and learning. Hanno also worked at Delft University of Technology, where he focused on design based education. Hanno is a Board Member of 'Technasium', a group of 92 Dutch schools for secondary education that put heavy emphasis on inquiry and design based learning. Since 2007 Hanno has been involved in developing and investigating STEM education for the primary level and pre-Kindergarten, where the concept of Learning through Play is a focus of research. In 2013, he received the Practitioner Prize from the Dutch Educational Research Society for his research on talent development with science and technology in primary schools. Hanno served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching and the International Journal of STEM Education. He wrote several books in Dutch on science and technology education that are used in teacher training programs and professional development courses throughout the Netherlands.

Simon Stewart

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

Simon Stewart is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for European and International Studies Research at University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the Principal Investigator on the ESRC/UKRI funded project, 'Homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic: homeless migrants in a global crisis'. Before arriving at Portsmouth in 2008, he worked as a Fellow in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his doctorate at University of Sussex (2006), where he also taught a wide range of courses. Prior to that, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture (1996, Royal Holloway), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology (1995, Portsmouth). In 2015 and 2017, Simon was the external examiner for PhDs at La Trobe University (Australia).
Simon's research expertise has two main strands: first, his research on migrant homelessness, which is informing policy in the sector. Second, as a cultural sociologist, he has longstanding expertise in the sociology of evaluative judgements and taste, i.e. examining how and on what basis people make aesthetic and ethical judgements and how these judgements play out over time.
Simon is the author of Culture and the Middle Classes (Ashgate, 2010). His second single-authored monograph, A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value.

Jens Branum

English Language Editor

Jens is a Cambridge English CELTA certified language teacher from the UK with extensive experience of language teaching and proofreading. He has graduated with first class honours in English Language and Linguistics from the University of the West of England. Jens is highly familiar with the academic environment as he is currently continuing his research at Leiden University in Language and Communication. He has been providing corrections and refinements to the writing of non-native speakers over the years. He has taught English at all levels at private language schools, universities and businesses.