Stephen Cowden is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire with an interest in the relationships between pedagogy, social justice and equality. He is a member of the Feminist Dissent editorial collective as well as a Commissioning Editor for the Peter Lang New Disciplinary Perspectives in Education series.

Gary Saunders is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Nottingham. Gary's interests include university governance, learning and teaching and student empowerment. Gary helped to develop Student as Producer at the University of Lincoln as well as working with others at the Social Science Centre (Lincoln).

Joss Winn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Lincoln, responsible for the School's post-graduate research programmes. Between 2010 and 2019, he researched and wrote about co-operative higher education with Mike Neary.