Tracey Jensen is a doctoral student at the Open University, where she is currently working on her PhD, and editorial assistant for the e-journal Studies in the Maternal. Her research explores the intersections of class and gender in contemporary parenting cultures across a range of sites, with a specific focus upon the relationship between parenting expertise on television and government parenting policy.  She is a mum of one and an avid, though ambivalent, watcher of Supernanny.