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

Isabella Aboderin, University of Oxford.

Ron Acierno, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

Rachael Addicott, King's Fund, London.

Marco Albertini, University of Bologna, Italy.

Alfredo Alfageme, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain.

Norman Alm, University of Dundee.

Hussein Amery, Colorado School of Mines, USA.

Gavin Andrews, McMaster University, Canada.

Renzo Andrich, Servizio Informazioni e Valutazione Ausili, Italy.

Kaarin Anstey, Australian National University, Australia.

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

Siobhan Austin, Curtin University, Australia.

Jan Baars, Tilburg University, Netherlands.

Clive Baldwin, Bradford University.

Elena Bardasi, The World Bank, USA.

Marian Barnes, Brighton University.

Bernadette Bartlam, University of Keele.

Peter Bath, University of Sheffield.

Renée Beard, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Roger Beech, University of Keele.

Steven Blackburn, University of Sheffield.

Eric Bonsang, University of Liège, Belgium.

Valeria Bordone, University of Mannheim, Germany.

Allan Borowski, La Trobe University, Australia.

Ian Brennan, Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA.

Marjolein Broese van Groenou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Christine Brown-Wilson, University of Manchester.

Ann Buchanan, University of Oxford.

Alex Burdorf, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands.

Vanessa Burholt, Swansea University.

Ayhut Ceyhan, Anadolu University, Turkey.

Kerry Chamberlain, Massey University, New Zealand.

Linda Chatters, University of Michigan, USA.

Ruby Chau, University of Hong Kong, China.

Habib Chaudary, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

May Chazan, Carleton University, Canada.

Chau-Kiu Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, China.

Young Jun Choi, University of Bath.

Alice Ming-Lin Chong, City University of Hong Kong, China.

Frank Huang-chih Chou, Kai-Suan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Kee-Lee Chou, University of Hong Kong, China.

Rita Chou, University of South Carolina, USA.

Nelson Chow, University of Hong Kong, China.

Cecilia Chu, University of California Berkeley, USA.

Andrew Clark, Salford University.

Amanda Clarke, University of Aberdeen.

Charlotte Clarke, University of Northumbria.

Marilyn Clarke, Adelaide University, Australia.

Patrick Cloos, University of Montreal, Canada.

Albert Coleman, University of Southampton.

Peter Coleman, University of Southampton.

Ingrid Connidis, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Glenda Cook, Northumbria University.

Adeline Cooney, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Peter Crome, University of Keele.

Ann Cronin, University of Surrey.

Karen Croucher, University of York.

Peter Cudd, University of Sheffield.

Adam Davey, Temple University, USA.

Judith Davey, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Kate Davidson, University of Surrey.

Sue Davies, University of Sheffield.

María Celeste Dávila, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.

Ruth Dean, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Cheryl Delgado, Cleveland State University, USA.

John Doling, University of Birmingham.

Jonathan Drennan, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Peter Dwyer, Salford University.

Wil Dykstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Joanne Earl, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Ricca Edmondson, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland.

Mary Egan, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Theresa Ellmers, University of Surrey.

Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler, University of Bamberg, Germany.

Cigdem Esin, University of East London.

Eileen Fairhurst, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rocio Fernández-Ballesteros, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Spain.

Michael Fine, Macquarie University, Australia.

Katherine Fiori, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA.

Justina Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Kimberly Fisher, University of Oxford.

Matthew Flynn, Middlesex University.

Tineke Fokkema, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Instistute, Netherlands.

Paul Frosh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Cristina Gagliardi, Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per Anziani, Italy.

Tova Gamliel, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Lawrence Ganong, University of Missouri, USA.

Tony Gatrell, University of Lancaster.

Rose Gilroy, University of Newcastle.

Mary Godfrey, University of Leeds.

Rachael Gooberman-Hill, University of Bristol.

Claire Goodman, University of Hertfordshire.

Agnes Gramain, Université Nancy 2, France.

Gail Grant, University of Southampton.

Emily Greenfield, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

Eyal Gringart, Edith Cowan University, Australia.

Ann Gruber-Baldini, University of Maryland, USA.

Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Nancy Guberman, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Björn Halleröd, Gothenborg University, Sweden.

Bonnie Hallman, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Svenja Happe, Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Germany.

Haim Hazan, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

John Henretta, University of Florida, USA.

Ursula Henz, London School of Economics.

Frances Heywood, University of Bristol.

Leslie Hicks, University of Lincoln.

Louise Hickson, University of Queensland, Australia.

Elizabeth Hill, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Twyla Hill, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.

Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby, Swansea University.

Tammy Hopper, University of Alberta, Canada.

Amy Horowitz, Jewish Home and Hospital Life Care System, New York, USA.

Khim Horton, University of Surrey.

Anna Howe, Melbourne, Australia.

Kenneth Howse, University of Oxford.

Hui-Chuan Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Alun Humphrey, National Centre for Social Research, London.

Laura Hurd Clarke, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Shereen Hussein, King's College London.

Susan Hutchinson, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Martin Hyde, Sheffield Hallam University.

Steven Iliffe, University College London.

David Ip, University of Queensland, Australia.

Lindesay Irvine, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

Sally Jacobs, University of Manchester.

Carol Jagger, University of Newcastle.

Anne Jamieson, Birkbeck, University of London.

Fanny Janssen, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Mohammad Kabir, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Saffron Karlsen, University College London.

Jeanne Katz, The Open University.

Fiona Kelly, University of Stirling.

Hal Kendig, University of Sydney, Australia.

Jill Kiecolt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.

Craig Knight, University of Exeter.

Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Mary Kritz, Cornell University, USA.

Alex Yui-Huen Kwan, City University of Hong Kong, China.

Adrienne La Grange, City University of Hong Kong, China.

Daniel La Parra, University of Alicante, Spain.

Peter Lansley, University of Reading.

Ariane Laplante-Levesque, University of Queensland, Australia.

Kristina Larsson, Äldrecentrum, Stockholm, Sweden.

Chiung-Ju Liu, Indiana University, Indianpolis, USA.

Chi-Wai Lui, University of Queensland, Australia.

Nick Le Mesurier, Stafforshire University.

Blanche LeBihan, Ecole des hautes études en santé publique, Rennes, France.

Deborah Levine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Jane Lewis, London School of Economics.

Jersey Liang, University of Michigan, USA.

Bjorn Lindgren, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.

Bengt Lindstrom, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland.

Howard Litwin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Liz Lloyd, University of Bristol.

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, University of East Anglia.

John Lord, Huddersfield University.

Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh.

Anne Lund, Oslo University College, Norway.

John McCormack, La Trobe University, Australia.

Shannon McDermott, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Isabella McLafferty, Dundee University.

Suzanne McLaren, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Anne McMunn, University College London.

Stephen McNair, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester.

Rebecca Mallett, Sheffield Hallam University.

Juliette Malley, London School of Economics.

Tony Maltby, University of Sheffield.

Jill Manthorpe, King's College London.

Marie-Louise Mares, University of Wisconsin, USA.

Victor Marshall, University of North Carolina, USA.

Hannah Marston, Swansea University.

Anne Martin-Matthews, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Fiona Matthews, University of Cambridge.

Fabrizio Mazzonna, University of Rome, Italy.

Julienne Meyer, City University, London.

Katherine Miller, Texas A&M University, USA.

Alisoun Milne, University of Kent.

Victor Minichiello, University of New England, Australia.

Suzanne Moffatt, University of Newcastle.

Valerie Moller, Rhodes University, South Africa.

Moon Choi, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Gail Mountain, University of Sheffield.

Moira Munro, University of Glasgow.

Charles Musselwhite, University of the West of England.

Gerd Naegele, University of Dortmund, Germany.

James Nazroo, University of Manchester.

Gopal Netevuli, Imperial College London.

Ann Netten, University of Kent.

Sarah Nettleton, University of York.

Yael Netz, Wingate Institute, Israel.

Galit Nimrod, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Orit Nuttman-Shwartz, Sapir College, Israel.

Samuel Nyman, University of Reading.

Zoe Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London.

Fred Pampel, University of Colorado, USA.

Giacomo Pasini, University of Venice, Italy.

Ian Patterson, University of Queensland, Australia.

Lesley Patterson, Massey University, New Zealand.

Sergio Perelman, University of Liège, Belgium.

John Percival, University of Bath.

David Phillips, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Chris Phillipson, University of Keele.

Susan Pickard, University of Manchester.

Frank Popham, University of St Andrews.

Jackie Powell, University of Southampton.

Kim Putters, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands.

A.K.M. Masud Rana, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Jan Reed, University of Northumbria.

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

Isto Ruoppila, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Assumpta Ryan, University of Ulster, Coleraine.

Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield.

Chiara Saraceno, Wisseschaftszentrum Berlin Fuer Sozialforschung, Germany.

Natalia Sarkisian, Boston College, USA.

Sasha Scambler, King's College London.

Tom Scharf, University of Keele.

Rick Scheidt, Kansas State University, USA.

Angelika Scheuer, Gesis (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Germany.

Beate Schwarz, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Peter Scourfield, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Diane Seddon, Bangor University, Gwynedd.

Janet Seeley, University of East Anglia.

David Seidel, University of Cambridge.

Jane Seymour, University of Nottingham.

Sheung-Tak Cheng, City University, Hong Kong.

Sharon Shiovitz-Ezra, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Elizabeth Silva, Open University.

Julius Sim, University of Keele.

Tapen Sinha, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico.

Andrew Sixsmith, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Randall Smith, University of Bristol.

Aimee Spector, University College London.

Robert Ssengonzi, RTI International, USA.

Afroditi Stathi, University of Bath.

Nan Stevens, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Kendra Strauss, University of Glasgow.

Ian Stuart-Hamilton, Glamorgan University.

Rachel Stuchbury, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Magnus Sverke, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Aagje Swinnen, Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Maximiliane Szinovacz, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

Philip Taylor, Monash University, Australia.

Helen Thomas, University of the Arts, London.

Virpi Timonen, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Cecilia Tomassini, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Carolyn Turvey, University of Iowa, USA.

Julia Twigg, University of Kent.

Sjaak van der Geest, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Martine van Selm, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Theo van Tilburg, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Christina Victor, Brunel University, London.

Hans Werner Wahl, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Morten Wahrendorf, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Linda Waite, University of Chicago, USA.

Marjo Wallin, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Dewen Wang, Xiamen University, China.

Jeni Warburton, La Trobe University, Australia.

Richard Ward, University of Manchester.

Elizabeth Webb, Imperial College London.

Florence Weber, École Normale Supérieure Paris, France.

Perla Werner, University of Haifa, Israel.

Katarina Wilhelmson, Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Heather Wilkinson, University of Edinburgh.

Kristine Nordlie Williams, University of Kansas, USA.

Sam Willner, Linköping University, Sweden.

Sharon Wray, Huddersfield University.

Keming Yang, University of Durham.

Sue Yeandle, University of Leeds.

Andrew Yip, University of Nottingham.

Ngai Ming Yip, City University of Hong Kong, China.

Sam Wai-KamYu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China.

Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, University of Montreal, Canada.