Claire Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork in Ireland. Her research is concerned with exploring the everyday dynamics of socio-spatial disablism in disabled people's lives, and with challenging 'taken-for-granted' assumptions about disability which underpin law and social policy.

Edward Hall is a Reader in Human Geography in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His research is concerned with the social geographies of people with learning disabilities, with particular attention to social inclusion and belonging, the changing landscape of social care and support, and experiences of hate crime.

Andrew Power is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton in the UK. His research interests concern social care and disability, with a particular focus on the forms of support for disabled people, across the community and in care settings. He also has an allied interest in the relational geographies of the voluntary sector and family care.

Robert Wilton is a Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University in Hamilton in Canada. His research is broadly concerned with disabled people's experiences of, and struggles over, social inclusion/exclusion. He has focused particular attention on access to paid work in both 'mainstream' and social economies.