Livia Sz. Oláh is Associate Professor of Demography at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (since 2006), and Project coordinator of the FamiliesAndSocieties project in the Seventh Framework Programme (2013-2017). She is the Principal Investigator of the Swedish part of the international comparative project Explaining very low fertility in postindustrial societies, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Her main research interests include family demography in comparative perspective with emphasis on men’s role in the family, policy impacts on fertility and partnership dissolution, and the interplay of family patterns and societal and familial gender relations. Oláh has an LL.M. from University of Miskolc, Hungary, and received her Ph.D. in Demography at Stockholm University in 2001. In 2003-2008 she held a postdoctoral fellowship in Demography financed by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research. She has published in high-quality international journals, among others Social Forces, Demographic Research, Population Research and Policy Review, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, in addition to chapters in a number of edited volumes. Oláh has been the initiator and coordinator of the research network Gendering European Family Dynamics (since 2005); a member of the Network of Excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe; 2006-2011), a member of the editorial advisory board of The Open Demography Journal, Bentham Science Publishers, USA (2008-2014) and of an international advisory panel to the Fatherhood Institute in the UK (2010), as well as of reference groups for Swedish government reports on family issues.

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Sanja Magdalenić is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. At the same department she received a PhD in Sociology with a thesis ”Gendering the Sociology Profession: Sweden, Britain and the US”, which is an analysis of the development of the sociology profession from a historical, comparative and a gender perspective. Her primary research interest include sociology of professions and organizations, gender research, sociological theory, history of sociology and the social sciences and visual sociology. Magdalenic has previously done research and published in projects such as “(Un)equal Institutional Environments” (The Ministry of Education, Sweden), “Women and men in sociology. On the impact of gender on academic work” (former Swedish Council for Work Life Research), ”MITIOR” (Media, IT and innovation in organization and work; former National Institute for Working Life), “The impact of gender, class and ethnicity for intra- and interprofessional relations” (The Swedish Research Council). She was a member of the expert panel in the evaluation of sociology and related disciplines carried out by The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (2011-2012). Sanja Magdalenic is a member of the Swedish Sociological Association, Research Committee on the History of Sociology, International Sociological Association and International Visual Sociology Association.

Marete Hellum is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg University, where she received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2002. She has worked and published in different research topics, such as gender equality among Swedish sociologist, marriage between heterosexuals with different cultural background, young people using drugs and views of professionals working with children regarding cases of sexual abuse of children. Hellum has participated in international projects, such as the Family Change in Europe Today (EU project, 1997-1999), led by professors Peter Flora, Mannheim Center for European Social Research, Germany and Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn, Columbia University, New York, USA. She received financial support for her research from the Ministry of Education, Sweden (1996 -1998), the Ministry of Social Affairs, Sweden (2003/2004) and the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Norway (2007/2008). In 2005 she held a postdoctoral fellowship for female researchers financed by Selma Andersson’s foundation. She is interested in methodology, both as a research field and in teaching. In 2007 she was nominated to Gothenburg University’s pedagogic prize.

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