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LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: LESSONS IN MAINSTREAMING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Governance of Scotland Forum would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission (Scotland) towards the preparation of this report; and the support of the Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh.

We would also like to thank those individuals, government departments and other organisations who gave their time and expertise, including: UK: Esther Breitenbach, Equality Unit, Scottish Executive; Kylie Stephen, UK Government Women's Unit; Charles Willey, Equality Policy Unit, National Assembly for Wales; Sue Brace and Ellen Kelly, City of Edinburgh Council; Sarah Hutchison and Neelam Bakshi, Fife Council; Eve Featherstone, Thora Rose, Gurbex Singh, Seamus Taylor, Peter West, all London Borough of Haringey; Munira Thobani, London Borough of Hounslow; Sue Yeandle, Chris Booth and Cinnamon Bennett, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University; Fiona Beveridge, Sue Nott and Kylie Stephen, Feminist Legal Research Unit, University of Liverpool;Vicky Lea, British Council, Manchester; Rawida Baksh-Soodeen and Robert Conrad Wooding, Commonwealth Secretariat, London; Teresa Rees, University of Cardiff; Morag Alexander and Angela O'Hagan, Equal Opportunities Commission (Scotland), Dharmendra Kanani, Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland). Australia: Karen Bentley, Office of the Status of Women, Commonwealth Government; Phillipa Hall, Department for Women, New South Wales. Canada: Susan Tanner, Justice Department, Canada; Barbara Annis, Gender and Diversity Experts, Canada; Cyrenne Hugette and Janice Nakamura, Ministry for Women's Equality, British Columbia; Janet Siltanen, Carleton University, Canada; Helene Dwyer-Renaud, Jennifer Curran and Florence Levers, Status of Women Canada; Women's Bureau, Human Resources Development Canada. Brian Girard,Economist, Ministère des Finances, Quebec; Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux, Quebec; and Secrétariat à la Condition Féminine,Quebec. Europe: Christine Guillemaut, Trans Faire, France; Mieke Verloo, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands; Petra Meier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Dirección General de la Mujer, Comunidad de Madrid, CERES, Spain; Karen Palisser, Council of Europe, Strasbourg; Tanja Salecl, Women's Policy Office, Slovenia; Leila Rasanen, Office of the Ombudsman for Equality, Finland and Liisa Horelli, Nordic Mainstreaming Project, Finland; Stefania Traustadottir, Office of Gender Equality, Iceland; Anne Havnor, Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, Norway; Monica Silvell, Nordic Mainstreaming Project, Sweden. New Zealand: Sue Loughlin, State Services Commission, New Zealand. US: Ann Lehman, Commission on the Status of Women, San Francisco.

THE RESEARCH TEAM

Dr Fiona Mackay is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Research Co-ordinator of Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland, both at the University of Edinburgh.

Kate Bilton is a recent University of Edinburgh graduate and is currently working as a researcher in the Department of Politics. She is planning to undertake postgraduate study into mainstreaming in theory and practice.

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