
Rose Holyoak is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Sociology at the University of Leicester where she teaches undergraduate research methods courses. She is in the final year of her PhD which explores young women’s experiences of social movement activism within UK anarchist and environmental groups. She blogs sporadically about her research on the project's website: http://movementsresearch.weebly.com/
She previously worked as a research assistant at the University of Derby on ‘Reclaiming the F-Word’, a project documenting the upsurge in contemporary feminist activism in the UK and her wider research interests lie in the areas of feminism, femininity, youth, political participation, activism and radical politics. She sits on the executive committee of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) as their administrator and outside of academia is currently involved in air quality and anti-fracking campaigning with Leicester Friends of the Earth, and anti-cuts activism with Defend Education Leicester.
She previously worked as a research assistant at the University of Derby on ‘Reclaiming the F-Word’, a project documenting the upsurge in contemporary feminist activism in the UK and her wider research interests lie in the areas of feminism, femininity, youth, political participation, activism and radical politics. She sits on the executive committee of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) as their administrator and outside of academia is currently involved in air quality and anti-fracking campaigning with Leicester Friends of the Earth, and anti-cuts activism with Defend Education Leicester.

Oli Williams is a PhD Student funded by a University Teaching Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is interested in embodiment and particularly how people’s physicality informs their sense of self and perception of quality of life. His doctoral research is an ethnography of health policies and inequalities and how they impact the everyday experiences and sense of well-being of people in a deprived neighbourhood. The perceived importance of and access to ‘healthy living’ is central to his concerns. He is particularly interested in analysing the potential for health promotion and interventions having adverse effects and is passionate about the need for this issue to be addressed.
His previous research at Loughborough University theorised the dietary practices of elite sportspeople. He is the author of 'Eating for excellence: eating disorders in elite sport - inevitability and ‘immunity’' (2012) in European Journal for Sport and Society, and with Professor Ellen Annandale, ‘Embodied subjectivity' in Michalos, A, C. ed. (forthcoming) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research.
His previous research at Loughborough University theorised the dietary practices of elite sportspeople. He is the author of 'Eating for excellence: eating disorders in elite sport - inevitability and ‘immunity’' (2012) in European Journal for Sport and Society, and with Professor Ellen Annandale, ‘Embodied subjectivity' in Michalos, A, C. ed. (forthcoming) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research.