Gaby Weiner is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Educational Sociology and holds other honorary positions at Manchester Metropolitan University and Strathclyde University. She also retains a professorial link with Umeå University in Sweden where she was professor of teacher education between 1998 and 2005. She has written and edited a number of publications on social justice, gender, race and ethnicity including: Feminisms in Education (1994); Equal Opportunities in Colleges and Universities (1995, with M. Farish, J. McPake & J. Powney); Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Educational and Social Change (1999, with M. Arnot & M. David), and Kids in Cyberspace: Teaching Antiracism using the Internet in Britain, Spain and Sweden (2005, with C. Gaine). She has also been responsible for two book series: Gender and Education (with R. Deem) and Feminist Educational Thinking (with L. Yates and K. Weiler). She has recently completed a book (with Lucy Townsend) on the uses of auto/biography in educational research which is due to appear late 2009 or early 2010. She has two main research interests currently: preparing an overview for the European Commission of research on gender and education in Europe and a study of the lives of women refugees and immigrants who came to Britain at the end of the 1930s, in particular their wartime and immediate post-war experiences.