Vanita Sundaram is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses specifically on gender-based violence and teenagers; gender and sexualities equality work in schools; 'everyday sexism' and education; and lad cultures in higher education. She is the author of numerous publications on these issues, including Preventing Youth Violence: Rethinking the Role of Gender in Schools.
Helen Sauntson is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at York St John University, UK. Her main teaching and research areas are: language, gender and sexuality; language and education; and gender, sexualities and education. She is the author of Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse, co-author of New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity, co-editor of Gender and Language Research Methodologies and co-editor of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
