Urszula Clark is Reader in English and Associate Dean of Languages and Social Sciences Postgraduate Programmes at Aston University. She is also Deputy Director, Aston Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Diversity. She is author of Studying Language: English in Action (Palgrave, 2007).
Esther Asprey is an Honorary Research Fellow in English Language at the Aston Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Diversity. She has contributed to several edited books on language and identity.