Robert Hollands is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Newcastle. His main research interests are in youth studies and urban sociology and he is author of an earlier study of nightlife in Newcastle entitled Friday Night, Saturday Night; Youth Cultural Identification in the Post-Industrial City (1995). Robert was born in Canada and has lived in the city's east end since 1987.

Bernie C. Byrnes completed her PhD in 2000, at Newcastle University. Her main research interest concerns Club Culture, which forms the subject of the majority of her published plays and short stories. Previous academic publications include Sex and Sexuality in Ian McEwan's Work (Paupers' Press, 1995), 'Ian McEwan - Pornographer or Prophet?' (Contemporary Review Vol.6 No. 1553 June 1995), and Woody Allen's Trilogy of Terror (Paupers' Press, 1997).

Caitlin Read graduated from Newcastle University in 1997 with a degree in English Literature. Subsequently, she has worked in Newcastle University's Students Union Entertainments Office promoting various gigs and club nights, in Arts Marketing for the city's Laing Gallery and in Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Film Festival. She has written about culture, the arts and nightlife for magazines Paint it Red and the Crack.

YOUTH CULTURE, NIGHTLIFE AND URBAN CHANGE

A project funded by the UK Government's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)