SUE HEATH Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and a Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, UK. She is the joint author of Researching Young People's Lives.  CHARLIE WALKER Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK, and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. He is author of Learning to Labour in post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition.