The Editors warmly thank the following referees who generously provided evaluations and constructive suggestions on submitted papers. Affiliations are in the UK unless stated.

Andy Achenbaum, University of Houston, USA.

Julia Addington-Hall, University of Southampton.

Olagoke Akintola, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Marco Albertini, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

Alfredo Alfageme, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

Graham Allan, Keele University.

Joe Alter, Pittsburgh University, USA.

Lars Andersson, Linköping University, Sweden.

Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Peter Arno, New York Medical College, USA.

Lucia Artazcoz, L'Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Spain.

Ann Ashburn, University of Southampton.

Terry Aspray, University of Newcastle.

Claudine Attias-Donfut, Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse, Paris, France.

Clive Baldwin, University of Bradford.

Claire Ballinger, Glasgow Calledonian University.

John Barclay, University of Durham.

María-Teresa Bazo, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain.

Roger Beech, Keele University.

Kate Bennett, University of Liverpool.

Simon Biggs, King's College London.

Dinah Bisdee, King's College London.

Steven Blackburn, University of Sheffield.

Roger Bloor, Keele University.

John Bond, University of Newcastle.

Margaret Boneham, Bolton University.

Richard Bonnie, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.

Gunilla Borglin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden.

Francesca Borgonovi, London School of Economics.

Joanna Bornat, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Ann Bowling, Unversity College London.

Sean Boyle, London School of Economics.

Martina Brandt, University of Mannheim, Germany.

Carol Brayne, University of Cambridge.

Elizabeth Breeze, University College London.

Bianca Brijnath, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Libby Brooke, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.

Jayne Brown, Glasgow Calledonian University.

Ken Brown, Nottinghamshire NHS Primary Care Trusts, Mansfield.

Christine Brown-Wilson, University of Manchester.

Simon Brownsell, University of Sheffield.

Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

Alex Burdorf, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Jeffrey Burr, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

Bill Bytheway, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Suzanne Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Pilar Callaby, University of Southampton.

Elaine Cameron, Wolverhampton University.

Andrea Campbell, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Bernard Casey, University of Warwick.

Robert Chambers, University of Sussex.

Alfred Chan, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Neena Chappell, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Rita Chou, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.

Jenny Chung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Silvia Ciairano, Università di Torino, Italy.

Rita Claes, Gent University, Belgium.

Gordon Clark, University of Oxford.

Amanda Clarke, University of Aberdeen.

Charlotte Clarke, University of Northumbria.

Karin Coifman, Columbia University, New York City, USA.

Peter Coleman, University of Southampton.

Sharon Collard, University of Bristol.

Glenda Cook, University of Northumbria.

Justin Coupland, Cardiff University.

Maureen Crane, University of Sheffield.

Helen Cylwik, London.

Guy Daly, Coventry University.

Robin Darton, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Adam Davey, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.

Judith Davey, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Kate Davidson, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Instistute.

David de Vaus, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Susan de Vos, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Ruth Dean, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Anita Debellis, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

Anna Dickinson, University of Dundee.

Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.

Freya Dittmann-Kohli, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Israel Doron, Haifa University, Israel.

Karen Douglas, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Martha Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Jonathan Drennan, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Du Peng, Renmin University of China, Beijing.

Anna Duner, Göteborg University, Sweden.

Sandra Dwyer, University of Leicester.

Pearl Dykstra, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Instistute.

Donald Edmondson, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Ricca Edmondson, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland.

Simon Evans, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Reza Fadayevatan, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Eileen Fairhurst, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Michael Fine, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Denise Forte, Kingston University London.

John Fraser, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute, New York City, USA.

William Gallo, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

George Giarchi, University of Plymouth.

Chris Gilleard, University College London.

Mary Godfrey, University of Leeds.

Merryn Gott, University of Sheffield.

Gillian Granville, University of Southampton.

Anne Gray, London South Bank University.

Linda Grenade, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

Eyal Gringart, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia.

Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Barry Gurland, Columbia University, New York City, USA.

Björn Gustafsson, Göteborg University, Sweden.

Björn Halleröd, Göteborg University, Sweden.

Chris Ham, University of Birmingham.

Karsten Hank, University of Mannheim, Germany.

Irene Hardill, Nottingham Trent University.

Catherine Hennessy, University of Plymouth.

Anselm Hennis, University of West Indies, Barbados.

John Henretta, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Katharina Herlofson, NOVA, Oslo, Norway.

Robin Hill, University of Edinburgh.

Margaret Holloway, University of Hull.

Eleanor Holroyd, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Anna Howe, Melbourne, Australia.

Hui-Chuan Hsu, Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University.

David Hunter, University of Durham.

Laura Hurd Clarke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Martin Hyde, Sheffield Hallam University.

Christine Ingleton, University of Sheffield.

Anthea Innes, University of Stirling.

Ulf Jakobsson, Lund University, Sweden.

Mark Jayne, University of Manchester.

Ian Rees Jones, Bangor University.

Zarina Kabir, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Sofie Ghazanfareeon Karlsson, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Norah Keating, University of Alberta, Winnipeg, Canada.

Leonie Kellaher, London Metropolitan University.

Simon Keller, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Corey Keyes, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

Andrew Kingston, University of Newcastle.

John Knodel, University of Michigan, USA.

Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University.

Frank Korom, Boston University, USA.

Neal Krause, University of Michigan, USA.

Ute Kunzmann, Leipzig University, Germany.

Nick Le Mesurier, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent.

Helena Legido-Quigley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Jane Lewis, London School of Economics.

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh.

Ariela Lowenstein, Haifa University, Israel.

Susan Lucas, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.

Rebekah Luff, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Mark Lymbery, University of Nottingham.

Tiina-Maria Lyyra, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Susan McFadden, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA.

Carole McGranahan, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Kwame McKenzie, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.

Isabella McLafferty, University of Dundee.

Kate McLean, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.

Kirk Mann, University of Leeds.

Jill Manthorpe, King's College London.

Greg Marsden, University of Leeds.

Amandine Masuy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Paul Masotti, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Robin Means, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Hilary Metcalf, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London.

Meredith Minkler, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Wendy Mitchell, University of York.

Suzanne Moffatt, University of Newcastle.

Valerie Moller, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Harry R. Moody, American Association of Retired Persons, Washington DC, USA.

Anne Moore, University of Brighton.

Pablo Mora, University of Texas Arlington, USA.

Jo Moriarty, King's College London.

Mike Murphy, London School of Economics.

Carol Musil, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Charles Musselwhite, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Miya Narushima, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada.

Ann Netten, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Galit Nimrod, University of Haifa, Israel.

Pat Niner, University of Birmingham.

Deborah Northrup, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Alicia O'Cathain, University of Sheffield.

William O'Connor, National Centre for Social Research, London.

Ann O'Hanlon, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Jim Ogg, Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse, Paris, France.

Marcel Olde-Rikkert, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Frank Oswald, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Antonio Paez, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Demi Patsios, University of Bristol.

Sue Paulson, City University, London.

Sheila Payne, University of Lancaster.

Sheila Peace, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

John Percival, University of Bath.

Heidi Petry, University of Washington Bothell, USA.

David Phillips, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Chris Phillipson, Keele University.

David Pillemer, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA.

Lisa Pinkney, University of Leeds.

Jeannette Pols, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mark Priestley, University of Leeds.

Michael Prince, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Enola Proctor, Washington University at St Louis, USA.

Sanna Reed, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Donald Reitzes, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

Barbara Resnick, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Oscar Ribeiro, University of Porto, Portugal.

Line Robichaud, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.

Jean-Marie Robine, Fédération Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer, Paris, France.

Ami Rokach, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Mark Rosenberg, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Dana Rosenfeld, Keele University.

Joel Rosenthal, State University of New York at Sunnybrook, USA.

Alice Rota Bartelink, Wintringham, Flemington, Australia.

Julia Rozanova, Brown University, Providence, USA.

Assumpta Ryan, University of Ulster, Coleraine.

Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield.

Steven Sabat, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

Kerri Sanders, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Britt-Inger Saveman, Umeå University, Sweden.

Sasha Scambler, King's College London.

Joachim Scheiner, University of Dortmund, Germany.

Lawrence Schiamberg, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill, University of Southampton.

John Schumacher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Peter Scourfield, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Clive Seale, Brunel University, London.

Janet Seeley, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Sheung-Tak Cheng, City University, Hong Kong.

Andrew Sixsmith, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

Karin Slegers, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Roy Soiza, University of Aberdeen.

Soondool Chung, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, South Korea.

Bas Steunenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Fiona Stevenson, University College London.

Philip St John, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, Canada.

Rachel Stuchbury, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Claire Surr, University of Bradford.

Gina Sylvestre, Winnipeg University, Canada.

Susan Szanton, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA.

Maximiliane Szinovacz, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

Denise Tanner, University of Birmingham.

Philip Taylor, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.

Rebecca Taylor, Policy Studies Institute, London.

Margaret Teaford, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

Josie Tetley, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Pat Thane, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Anthea Tinker, King's College London.

Sandra Torres, Linköping University, Sweden.

Judith Torrington, University of Sheffield.

Jean Townsend, University of Leeds.

Emanuelle Tulle, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Theo van Tilburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Christina Victor, University of Reading.

Stephen Vodanovich, University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA.

Hans Joachim von Kondratovicz, German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin.

Peter Walters, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Stephen Walters, University of Sheffield.

Jeni Warburton, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Richard Ward, University of Manchester.

Yvonne Wells, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Jennifer Wenborn, University College London.

Gerben Westerhof, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Mark Wilberforce, University of Manchester.

Sharon Williams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

Sion Williams, Bangor University.

Gillian Windle, Bangor University.

Alexandra Withnall, University of Warwick.

Jean Woo, City University of Hong Kong.

James Woodward, St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Fay Wright, King's College London.

Xiaolin Xie, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA.

Keming Yang, University of Durham.

Andrew Yip, University of Nottingham.

Sam Wai-KamYu, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Jenny Zhan, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.