Kate Seymour is a senior social work academic and criminologist at Flinders University, South Australia, whose work focuses on the socio-cultural contexts for violence. Her research builds on her own experience in direct practice with men who use violence as well as her theoretical grounding across the fields of social work and criminology. Her recent book, with Sarah Wendt and Kris Natalier, Responding to Domestic Violence: Difficult Conversations, was published in 2023. Bob Pease is an honorary professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University and an adjunct professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. He has published extensively on masculinity politics and critical social work practice. His most recent books include Undoing Privilege (revised edition) (2022) and Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities, co-editor (2023). Sofia Strid is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Strid has worked extensively on developing concepts, methodologies and policy for theorising, measuring and preventing gender-based violence. Her work has been published in Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Sex Research, Politics and Governance, Social Politics, Social Problems, Sociology, Theory and Society, and Violence against Women. Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Orebro University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK. Recent books include Digital Gender-Sexual Violations, with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis (2022), and Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations, co-edited with Kadri Aavik, David L. Collinson and Anika Thym (2024).
