Stefano Ba’, PhD, is a lecturer at the Institute of Childhood and Education (ICE), Leeds Trinity University, UK. He has a dual national academic background (a taught doctorate in Political Sciences from the University of Perugia, Italy and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester, UK and at present researches family life, children, and job insecurity. He is a sociologist who has grounding in Critical Theory and has recently published in high impact factor journals such as Work, Employment and Society and Capital and Class. Prior to researching how family life mixes with precarity, he studied the so-called work-family balance (or work and family reconciliation), publishing his finding in a monograph: A Cultural Study of the Work and Family Balance. He also contributed to the following peer-reviewed journals: Sociological Research Online, Community Work and Family and Quaderni di Teoria Sociale [social theory notebooks]. He is a member of the Trans-Pennine Working Group (a group of scholars committed to social critical approaches) and of Critical Political Economy Research Network, contributing regularly to their conferences.