Biographical note

FRED CARTMEL is Senior Research Associate in the Youth, Education and Employment Research Unit based at Glasgow University, UK PHIL COHEN is Professor of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London, UK RUTH EDMOND works part time in the Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, UK LIZ FROST is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of The West of England, UK ROBERT HOLLANDS is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK MATHEW JONES is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy at the University of the West of England, UK KARENZA MOORE is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, UK JUDY ORME is Principal Lecturer in Public Health at the University of the West of England, UK BARRY PERCY-SMITH is Senior Research Fellow at SOLAR (Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research) at the University of the West of England, UK KEN ROBERTS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK FENELLA STARKEY is a Research Associate in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK SUSAN WEIL is Professor of Social and Organisational Learning and Director of the SOLAR (Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research) Centre, University of the West of England, UK