Career: Nick Crossley joined the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester in 1998, having previously worked in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield. He has a range of research interests, including social movements and related issues, embodiment and the body, social theory, especially Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu, Mead and Durkheim, social networks and network analysis, which he has pursued through both theoretical and empirical studies using a range of different methods, from ethnography to a questionnaire survey, archive research to open ended interviews, discourse analysis to multidimensional scaling. He co-edits a McGraw-Hill/Open University Press book series, Sociology and Social Change, and is co-editor of the journal Social Movement Studies (see url below).

Publications include: The Politics of Subjectivity: Between Foucault and Merleau-Ponty 1996, Intersubjectivity: The Fabric of Social Becoming 1996 (Japanese translation 2004), The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire 2001, Making Sense of Social Movements 2002, After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere 2004, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory 2004, Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health (Critical Studies in Health and Society) 2006, Reflexions in the Flesh: Embodiment in Late Modernity 2007; numerous book chapters, book reviews and articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room 2.13, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Roscoe Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England; Tel: +44 (0)161 275-2517; Fax: +44 (0)161 275-2462; Email: Nick.Crossley@manchester.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/sociology/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14742837.asp/ .