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Date of birth August 30,1950
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University of Kent
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Social Theory and the Urban Question
Social Mobility Myths
Unequal But Fair? A Study of Class Barriers in Britain
Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation
Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage: Deprivation and Social Exclusion in Australia
The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with Reality
Privatization and popular capitalism
Australia's welfare habit
Beware False Prophets: Equality, the Good Society and the Spirit Level
The Ends and Means of Welfare
Welfare and inequality
British Politics
Down and Out: Poverty and Exclusion in Australia
Introduction to British Politics: Analysing a Capitalist Democracy
The Rise of the Equalities Industry
Rising on the Tasman Tide: Income Inequality in Australia and New Zealand
The Australian Welfare State: Neither Egalitarian Saviour Nor Economic Millstone?
The Distribution of Welfare: Inequality, Earnings Capacity and Household Production in a Comparative Perspective
Selectivity and Targeting in Income Support: The Australian Experience
Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on the Australian Experience
Poverty in Australia: Beyond the Rhetoric
Improving Work Incentives in a Means-tested Welfare System: The 1994 Australian Social Security Reforms
Making Ends Meet in Australia and Sweden: A Comparative Analysis of the Consensual Approach to Poverty Measurement
The Costs of Disability and the Incidence of Poverty
Sole Parent Families in Australia
When Prophecy Fails
Unpacking Inequality: Wage Incomes, Disposable Incomes and Living Standards
Development of Indicative Budget Standards for Australia
Evaluation and Research in Social Policy
Employment Growth and Poverty: An Analysis of Australian Experience, 1983-1990
Home Ownership and Inequality: Imputed Rent and Income Distribution in Australia
The Mixed Economy of Support for the Aged in Australia: Lessons for Privatisation
Promoting Inclusion and Combating Deprivation: Recent Changes in Social Disadvantage in Australia
Income Poverty, Deprivation and Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Australia and Britain
Using Budget Standards to Assess the Well Being of Families
The direct and indirect effects of unemployment on poverty and inequality
A Challenge to Work and Welfare: Poverty in Australia in the 1990's
Longer Run Changes in the Distribution of Income in Australia
An Ever- Rising Tide? Poverty in Australia in the Eighties
Social Policy in East Asia and the Pacific Area in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Responses
Versailles Memorandum
Restoring a Nation of Home Owners: What Went Wrong with Home Ownership in Britain, and how to Start Putting it Right
Immigrants and the Distribution of Income: National and International Comparisons
Efficiency and Effectiveness in Social Policies: An International Perspective
Social Change and Social Policy: Results from National Survey of Public Opinion
Non Cash Income, Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Income Inequality in Australia in an International Comparative Perspective
Economic Adjustment and Distributional Change: Income Inequality and Poverty in Australia in The 1980's
The Size of Government and Economic Performance: International Comparisons
Social Class and Stratification
A nation of home owners
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Peter Robert Saunders is a British sociologist. He was born in Croydon and educated at Selhurst Grammar School for Boys. He gained a BA in Sociology from the University of Kent, and a PhD from Chelsea College, while also acting as a Research Officer at the University of Essex.

The Manchester puppet masters who made the stars of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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... " He doesn t look comfortable in it, " remarks Peter Saunders, one of the heads of the studio where this fitting is taking place...

New Year Honours 2023: Pat Jennings, Dara McAnulty and John Bennett on NI list

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" Full list of Northern Ireland recipients of New Year HonoursCommanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)Dr Graham Harold Gudgin, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - for services to economic development in Northern IrelandMaria Teresa Jennings, Castlewellan, County Down, director, regulatory compliance, people and Northern Ireland, Food Standards Agency - for services to public healthPatrick Anthony Jennings OBE, Brickendon, Hertfordshire - for services to association football and to charity in Northern IrelandSamuel David Pollock OBE, Antrim, County Antrim - for public service in Northern IrelandOfficers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)Dr John Edmund Stannard, Belfast, legal academic, Queen s University Belfast - for services to legal educationNicola Louise Bailey, London - for services to healthcare in Northern IrelandBrian Baird, Newtownards, County Down, lately board member of Invest NI - for services to economic development in Northern IrelandMichael Thomas Bell, Holywood, County Down, executive director, Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association Ltd - for services to the food and drink industry and to the economy in Northern IrelandJoseph Patrick Breen, Ballycastle, County Antrim, lately senior scientific officer, Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - for services to marine science and to environmental protectionProf Francis Casey, Carryduff, County Down, consultant paediatric cardiologist - for services to healthcare in Northern IrelandVictor James Boyd Chestnutt, Bushmills, County Antrim, lately president, Ulster Farmers Union - for services to agricultureDr Jennifer Elliott, Londonderry - for services to the arts in Northern IrelandSteven McCourt, Larne, County Antrim, head of reducing reoffending, resettlement and rehabilitation, Department of Justice - for public serviceJohn Gordon Miligan, Newtownards, County Down - for services to business and human resource management in Northern IrelandTrevor Dale Robinson, Portadown, County Armagh, lately principal, Lurgan College, County Armagh - for services to educationDeborah Elizabeth Watters, Belfast, co-director, Northern Ireland Alternative - for public serviceMembers of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)Dr Roy Robert Anderson, Belfast - for services to science and natureSandra Hazel Bailie, County Down - for services to bowlsWilliam John Gaston Bennett, Belfast - for services to radio and television broadcasting in Northern IrelandSandra Best, Lisburn, County Down, volunteer and trustee, Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation - for voluntary serviceStephen John Bleakley, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone - for services to libraries and to the community in Fermanagh, Omagh and FivemiletownKenneth Sydney Brundle, Killinchy, County Down - for services to business, to economic development and to the charitable sector in Northern IrelandGeorge Crawford Bell, Carryduff, County Down - for services to the music industry in Northern IrelandDr Anne Campbell, Belfast, reader, Queen s University Belfast - for services to drug policy and practiceSusan Shirley Cunningham, Belfast, lately president, North of Ireland Veterinary Association - for services to the veterinary profession in Northern IrelandJacqueline Dixon, Ballyrobert, County Antrim, chief executive, Antrim and Newtownabbey Council - for services to local government and to the community in Northern IrelandEileen Lilian Mary Donnelly, Dungannon, County Tyrone, board of governors, the Integrated College, Dungannon - for services to education in Northern IrelandLorraine Foster, Lisburn, County Antrim - for services to people with learning disabilities in LisburnBrian Jozef Grzymek, Holywood, County Down, lately deputy director, Department of Justice - for public and voluntary service in Northern IrelandKathleen Margaret Joy Guthrie, Hillsborough, County Down - for services to the Reserve Forces and to the veteran community in Northern IrelandThe Reverend Matthew Henry Hagan, Coalisland, County Tyrone, chaplain, Southern Area Hospice and Rector of Tynan, Aghavilly and Middletown parishes, County Armagh - for services to hospice healthcare and to the community in Northern IrelandProfessor Anne Heaslett, Limavady, County Londonderry, lately principal, Stranmillis University College - for services to educationPeter Desmond Jack, Limavady, County Londonderry - for services to endurance sport and charity in Northern IrelandRabbi David Michael Kale, Belfast, faith leader, Belfast Synagogue - for services to the Jewish community in Northern IrelandSamuel James Kee, Bready, County Tyrone, community development worker - for services to the community in County LondonderryGavin Joseph Killeen DL Londonderry, managing director, Nuprint Technologies Ltd - for services to further education in Northern IrelandRobert Leckey, County Armagh - for services to education in County DownDr Alison Florence Livingstone, Randalstown, County Antrim, paediatrician, Northern Health and Social Care Trust - for services to safeguarding children in Northern IrelandPeter Anthony McBride, Omagh, County Tyrone - for services to the economy and to the community in County TyroneKatrina McDonnell, Belfast, founder, Homeless Period Belfast - for services to women s healthPatrick Joseph McGurn, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh - 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The Manchester puppet masters who made the stars of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Dec 30,2022 6:21 pm

By Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter

An unremarkable low-level building tucked off a suburban street in Greater Manchester hides the studio where The Stars of one of this year's hotly-tipped Oscar contenders were born.

In a Small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner Jacket , ready for the Red Carpet at the Bafta Awards.

There seems to be some unease in his wide eyes as a designer feels and pins the fit of his smart New Suit .

" He doesn't look comfortable in it, " remarks Peter Saunders , one of The Heads of the studio where this fitting is taking place. " He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see. "

Geppetto , a humble Italian woodworker, is more used to wearing his weathered carpenter's clothes. But he has no say in his new outfit.

About 35cm tall, he is one of the puppets used in director Guillermo del Toro's recent stop-motion animation adaptation of Pinocchio.

In The Classic story, Geppetto makes the wooden boy whose nose grows when he lies.

In reality, for The Film , both Characters - along with The Other main cast members - were constructed by animation studio Mackinnon and Saunders, based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester .

After being given his miniature tailored suit in The Company 's costume department, Geppetto went on to join The Other stars of this year's Awards Season in London Last Weekend , where The Film won best animated feature.

It has also won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award, and is odds-on favourite to be named best animated feature at The Oscars in Two Weeks ' time.

Backstage at the Baftas, Del Toro praised The British puppet studio. " Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester, England, are The Best at doing this, " he told reporters. " They are unparalleled. "

This low-key mainstay of The British animation industry has made its home in a slightly shabby building eight miles south of the City Centre .

" It's not exactly Hollywood, " Saunders admits as he surveys the unkempt Car Park , backing onto a canal.

Back in the costume department, the desks are covered in pins, cotton, fabric, toothpicks, glue bottles and scissors. There are tiny belt buckles, and Small buttons to be added to Geppetto 's suit.

On The Wall are samples from costumes for The Film , and a single micro fingerless glove that one of the costume-makers painstakingly knitted for Geppetto using pins. Del Toro decided against using it in The Film in The End .

In another workshop, model-makers craft metal skeletons for Characters for a top secret new children's show. Their workstations are similarly strewn with the tools of their Trade - Small screwdrivers, chisels, files, clamps, brushes. One steel foot fixture will take a few days to make.

Upstairs, in an unglamorous meeting room, Pinocchio is joined by Postman Pat and Pingu on shelves bearing some of the Characters The Company has worked on.

There are also aliens made for Tim Burton 's Mars Attacks, Mackinnon and Saunders' first foray into Hollywood in 1996. Burton was unable to use stop-motion animation in The End , but was impressed by The Company .

He went back to them for The Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie, and Wes Anderson called upon them for The Fantastic Mr Fox.

An exhibition of The Company 's work in nearby Sale features models from those films as well as children's TV shows like Bob the Builder, Ra Ra the Noisy Lion, Twirly Woos and The Clangers .

Saunders says creating The Models for Pinocchio took 62 people tens of thousands of hours over Four Years .

The Characters are based on illustrations by US artist Gris Grimly , but The Film 's final designs were created through many back-and-forth emails between Del Toro and his team, and Mackinnon and Saunders.

The Mexican director knew exactly what he wanted, down to tiny details about, for example, Geppetto 's hands.

" Guillermo was very determined that they should look like workers' hands, " Saunders says. " It the was The Dirt on the fingernails that he was concerned about. It was the calluses on the palms of his hands.

"'Do you Want Two calluses? Do you want 10 calluses? Do you want them to be bloodshot or milky white or whatever?'

" It went on for weeks. It felt like months. But it's that level of detail that is fun to try and realise. "

He continues: " Guillermo had a very distinct idea of what he wanted, and he pushed and pushed and pushed until it was just right, and we love that process of trying to get things right for people. "

I must watch it again and pay particular attention to Geppetto 's hands, I say. " I don't think you'll notice, " Saunders laughs. " But it's there! "

As for Pinocchio, rather than using a usual steel skeleton covered with foam and silicone, The Company developed a method of 3D printing Pinocchio's Body Parts in metal, allowing multiple identical versions to be made.

Even more versions of his face were manufactured, each with slightly different expressions, which could be easily taken on and off, and held in place using magnets.

Once The Models were completed to Del Toro's satisfaction, the equally painstaking work of bringing them to life was done in Portland, Oregon, and Guadalajara in Mexico.

Saunders formed The Company with Ian Mackinnon after Cosgrove Hall, the legendary Manchester-based animation studio they worked for, folded in the early 1990s.

Their firm now has about 110 staff, but there have been warnings over The Future of The British animation industry because of competition from other countries with more generous tax breaks.

It is a " really difficult" time for British animation, Saunders says.

" We've always had highs and lows with The Type of work we've done. We've had some fantastic highs in terms of feature films and some Fantastic Children 's TV series that we're very proud to be associated with.

" But maybe a year after those successes, there is no work. It's always been this rollercoaster of a ride, and I think because of these tax credits, the highs and lows are getting perhaps a little bit more extreme.

" So There is concern that The British animation industry is slowly bleeding to death. That may be an over-exaggeration, but it's certainly Under Pressure from these countries where there are such generous tax breaks. "

A government consultation on plans to reform the UK's TV and film tax credits has just closed.

Earlier this month, Wallace and Gromit makers Aardman Animations that British companies may be forced to move abroad in order to compete. Saunders is not considering that, however.

" Ian and myself have got roots in the north-west. I'm from Rochdale. Ian's from Warrington. We love being based in Altrincham. We've got a great company here.

" We employ a lot of people from the north-west but we also attract people and work from all over The World , so we're in a very privileged position.

" The Building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me. "

Things like making Pinocchio and Geppetto - and his dinner Jacket - which might get an outing in Hollywood when The Oscars come around.

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