Notes on Contributors

Mike Aiken is an independent researcher in the community sector. He holds a diploma in counselling (Brighton University), an MA in social policy (University of Sussex), a PhD (Open University), and has published in Voluntas; Voluntary Sector Review; Public Management Review and Interface. Mike has lived and taught in Germany and Mexico and is a research associate with the Institute for Voluntary Action Research. He remains active in local campaigns for migrants' health rights.

James D. Grady, DMD, MS, is a US-based organisational behaviour consultant. He is co-founder of Pivot Point Business Solutions, a consulting firm specialising in the behavioural implications (e.g. decreased performance, productivity, and profitability) of organisations introducing and implementing organisational change—with specific focus on organisational culture, structure, and overall effectiveness.

Victoria M. Grady, DSc, is currently Director of MBA/MSM Graduate Programs and an Associate Professor Management/Organizational Behavior in the School of Business at George Mason University located just outside Washington, DC. Her consulting practice includes family businesses, federal government institutions, non-profit organisations, higher education, and health-related institutions.

Julian Manley is Social Innovation Manager at the Centre for SME Development, University of Central Lancashire. He is a founding member and ex-Chair of the Preston Cooperative Development Network. He has presented on cooperatives and the Preston Model nationally and internationally. His current thematic interests are in psychosocial approaches to cooperatives and cooperation, climate psychology and affect, and how these may be investigated through social dreaming and associated methods, such as the visual matrix.

Richard Morgan-Jones' original graduate and postgraduate education was at Cambridge, Oxford, and Exeter Universities, UK in anthropology, theology, and education. He is a supervising and training psychoanalyt