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Notes on ContributorsJohn Benington is Professor of Public Policy and Management at Warwick Business School,Warwick University, and Director of the Institute of Governance and Public Management. Hisresearch interests are in public value, civic leadership, multi-level governance, and interorganizationalnetworks. His methodological interests are in action-research, co-research, andformative evaluation. Before becoming an academic he tried to practise what he now teaches.Fifteen years as a manager in the public and voluntary sectors taught him that things often workbetter in practice than in theory.René Bouwen holds a PhD in psychology and is Professor of Organizational Psychology andGroup Dynamics at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. He is doing research ondealing with knowledge differences in organizations, innovation and change processes, groupdevelopment and group effectiveness. Social change practices and multi-party collaborationare studied from a relational constructionist perspective.John D. Brewer is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University of Belfast. He was VisitingFellow at Yale University (1989), St John’s College, Oxford (1992), Corpus Christi College,Cambridge (2002) and the Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra (2003). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1998and an Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences in 2003. He is author and co-authorof 13 books, including Inside the RUC (Oxford University Press), After Soweto (OxfordUniversity Press), Black and Blue: Policing in South Africa (Oxford University Press), Crime inIreland 1945–95 (Oxford University Press ), Police, Public Order and the State (Macmillan), Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland 1660–1997 (Macmillan) and Ethnography (Open UniversityPress). He is editor of Can South Africa Survive and Restructuring South Africa (both withMacmillan) and co-editor of the A–Z of Social Research (Sage).Catherine Cassell is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Director of Research inthe Management School at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the areasof organizational change and development and managing diversity. Catherine has had a longterm interest in issues of research methodology, particularly in relation to qualitative methods.She has collaborated with Gillian Symon over a number of years to produce books, articlesand conference contributions about the use of qualitative methods in organizational research.Elizabeth Chell is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Institute forEntrepreneurship, at the University of Southampton. Previously she held the Rory Brooks Chairof Enterprise at UMIST and the Chair of Enterprise, the University of Manchester. She haspublished extensively in entrepreneurship, organizational behaviour and research methods. Herlatest book is Entrepreneurship: Globalization, Innovation and Development published by ThomsonLearning, 2001. She has recently contributed an entry on the critical incident technique in The