Christopher McMaster (PhD) is the author of Educating all: Developing inclusive school cultures from within published by Peter Lang, and Radical Behavior: Humanizing the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) published by Southern Skies Publications. He is the creator and lead editor of the Survive and Succeed postgraduate student support series, with editions published in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Scandinavia. Christopher has recently been an Assistant Professor of Education, Special Education at Augsburg University, Minneapolis, USA. He has since returned to his adopted home of New Zealand where he taught in the local community on a Pacific voyaging canoe. He writes both fiction and non-fiction, including seven novels, two anthologies of short stories and poetry, and has edited collected fiction works. His author website is: www.christophermcmaster.com

Ben Whitburn is Associate Professor at the Southampton Education School. Ben undertakes research to build institutional capacity to account more effectively for diverse ways of knowing and being. Ben has published a body of literature in the interdisciplinary field of critical disability studies that reaffirms disability as productive potential.