Dr Nelarine Cornelius is Project Director for the Brunel WestFocus Social Inclusion Network. She is Reader in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour in Brunel Business School. She is also Director for the Centre for Research in Emotion Work (CREW), and Head of the Organisational Behaviour and Employment Relations Research Group at Brunel. Nelarine has advised the Home Office, Fire Service and Cabinet Office and a variety of other non-profit organisations. Her research includes developing new models of fairness and inequality, and she is undertaking research with colleagues in London and Bradford. She is a non-service member assessor for the Home Office Assessment Consultancy Unit and a Trustee of the Butler Trust.

Dr Julia Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Research Methods and is a member of the Criminology Research Cluster at the University of Westminster, London. One of the Cluster's central concerns is child victimisation and child protection. Dr Davidson has conducted a considerable amount of research on child sexual abuse with both perpetrators and victims. She also retains a strong interest in government policy and legislative provision for child victims and is frequently invited to conferences to speak on these issues. Recent research includes a longitudinal study evaluating the impact of community treatment programmes on convicted child sexual abusers and a study undertaken on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, which sought to explore child safety on the internet. She is also writing a book entitled 'Child Sexual Abuse: Media Representations and Government Reactions'. Dr Davidson provides regular expert advice on sexual abuse to the media and has worked extensively with ITV Evening News, the ITV News Channel and the BBC.

Yvonne Guerrier's recent research has focused on the hospitality and tourism industries. She has conducted projects for HEFCE on graduate careers in the hospitality industry and for the Joint Hospitality Industry Congress. Her current focus is on the contradictions of customer service work and she has been working with Amel Adib on studies of hotel workers and tour reps. Professor Guerrier's research focuses on work within the hospitality and tourism sectors, specifically on the nature of customer service work, the work of managers and the impact of gender on work. Recent projects include studies of hotel workers and tour reps conducted with Dr Amel Adib leading to a number of articles and a major project for HEFCE on management careers in the hospitality industry where she undertook the research on the hotel sector.

Stan Thompson is a Public Health Specialist with over twenty years experience in the development of the health and care sector in Scotland, the north west, west Midlands, London & the south east, Stan's activities range from research & development and project & programme management to piloting innovative service developments. Currently concentrating on the needs of the workforce and workplace in the south east, the focus of his activities have centred around developing and delivering the 'Health at Work, HR and Organisational Development agendas, in conjunction with the Department of Health, DTI & ODPM. Stan is based in Slough at the Centre for Workforce Development, Thames Valley University and his three main work-based areas of interest are: HR development; Occupational Health &Safety; and Training.

Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj is Project Director for the Brunel hub of the WestFocus Entrepreneurship Centre. She is a Senior Lecturer in Brunel Business School in Entrepreneurship and Family firms. She is a member of CREW (Centre for Research in Emotion Work) and an associate member of BRESE (Brunel Research in Enterprise, Sustainability and Ethics). Shaheena has extensive experience of supporting business development working with both public and voluntary sector organisations. She has worked with local and central government bodies including the, Hillingdon Council, Business Links, and business support in the private sector with the Institute of Directors. Her research includes dynamics of relationships in family firms on an international level, gender and enterprise and developments in social capital amongst small businesses.

Dr Tally Hatzakis is Project Manager for the Brunel WestFocus Entrepreneurship Centre and an associate member of BRESE (Brunel Research in Enterprise, Innovation, Sustainability and Ethics). She is a Lecturer in Brunel Business School in Organisational Theory and Analysis, Managing the Digital Enterprise and Change Management in Digital Enterprises, and Issues and Controversies in Management. She is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), the European Congress of Organisational Studies (EGOS) and the First International Network of Trust (FINT). Her research interests include IT-driven organisational change, trust, and trust-building. Prior to returning to education, Tally spent a number of years in industry, where she worked in project management, advertising and marketing research.

Pauline Seston is Business and Operations Manager for the WestFocus Entrepreneurship Centre and Social Inclusion Network in Brunel Business School, Brunel University. She has gained considerable experience over a number of years in the commercial, not-for-profit and educational sectors. Pauline was a key member of the team responsible for the development and launch of The Brunel MBA. She has worked for the European School of Management, London Business School, Business in the Community and, prior to that, as Company Secretary for a small training organisation specialising in sales and management training for the automotive industry.

Adrian Woods is a Projects Advisor for Brunel WestFocus initiatives. He has worked extensively for both the private and public sector both in the UK and in the European Union as a consultant on training and education. Adrian has recently undertaken work for local government and other statutory organisations on training, including training needs analysis, skills shortages and general labour market work. He has extensive experience of the design, implementation and accreditation of management training programmes at sub-degree, undergraduate and post-graduate level as well as in the design and delivery of distance and e-learning material.

Annie Bartlett is Senior Lecturer Forensic Psychiatry in the Department of Mental Health at St George's University of London. She is an experienced teacher, trainer and researcher with established interests in gender, gay and lesbian mental health, the culture of the NHS and more recently asylum seekers. She has a wide network of contacts within statutory and voluntary services for both mentally disordered offenders and gay and lesbian service users, as well as long term clinical involvement both with mentally disordered offenders and asylum seekers.

Elhum Ghandi is a Research Fellow in the Department of Mental Health, St George’s University of London.. She has experience in health services and social policy research and her interests lie in research with marginalised groups. She is currently working to address gender inequalities for migrant women and their children.

Dr Aisha Gill is an academic researcher and an activist in the field of gender-based violence and migration. Her work with the Newham Asian Women's Project for the past five years (ten in the field of research and activism) entails working with women from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including those from local BME communities. At the national level she collaborates with the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Community Liaison Unit (on the behalf of NAWP and Imkaan) to work with BME women in both the UK and transnationally. These links have been reinforced by work with the criminal justice system, namely the Metropolitan Police Force. Her research has focused on the trafficking of women, honour-based violence, forced marriages, dowry-based abuse, the forced removal of children by EEA parents, and suicidal behaviour amongst young Asian women and public health matters. Her current work addresses key issues which can be uniquely addressed only by adopting a multidisciplinary perspective.

Jane Hubert is Senior Research Fellow/Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Division of Mental Health at St George's, University of London. Her main interests are the familial, social and cultural aspects of intellectual disability, especially with regard to people with severe intellectual disabilities and mental health problems, and their families; and also the experience and effects of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation on social, individual and gender identity. Her recent research includes bereavement and loss; black and ethnic minority family carers; and psychotherapeutic outcomes for young men who have been abused and who show abusive behaviour.