Dr Francis Stewart is the head of the sociology department at Bishop Grosseteste University (Lincoln, UK) and the director of the Edward Bailey Research Centre.
Dr Laura Way is a research fellow on the Following Young Fathers Furthers study (UKRI funded 2020-2024) at the University of Lincoln (UK).
Francis Stewart is the implicit religion research fellow at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Stirling for the first ever study of Straight Edge punk and religious identity. This has since been published as the book Punk Rock is My Religion: Straight Edge Punk and ‘Religious’ Identity (Routledge, 2017). She has published on, and continues to research on, punk rock in Northern Ireland; punk rock and animal activism; gender, race and disability within punk rock; punk rock sound and religion; and the continued interaction between punk rock and ‘religion’, ‘spirituality’ and meaning making.
Laura Way is a research fellow in family research at the University of Lincoln. She is currently part of the Following Young Fathers Further research team; a longitudinal study exploring young fathers’ experiences and parenting trajectories. Her key research interests are gender and the life-course, creative qualitative methods and punk pedagogies. She is a steering group member of the Punk Scholars Network.
Contact: University of Lincoln, 3202 Bridge House, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK.
