PETER BIRCHENALL Professor and Independent Consultant in Nurse Education. He has a background in Learning Disability Nursing, Adult Nursing and Nurse Education. He has authored and co-authored several successful nursing textbooks. He has a background in nurse teacher education as well as leading courses in undergraduate and post graduate nursing. Peter has also worked as an Education Officer with the former English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Until his retirement Peter held the Chair in Health Studies at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK. For nine years he was Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Education Today, a position he relinquished in 2002.
NICOLA ADAMS is Professor of Rehabilitation, School of Health, Community& Education Studies, Northumbria University, UK.