Bill Lee, PhD is Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School where he has just completed his term as Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Division.  He has a long-term interest in research methods and has been active in establishing communities of scholars interested in research methods. 

Mark NK Saunders, BA MSc PGCE PhD FCIPD is Professor of Business Research Methods at the Birmingham Business School and Director of Postgraduate Research Methods Training for the College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham. He has a longstanding interest in researcher development having organised numerous colloquia and research methods summer schools.