Richard Fay is a Critical Applied Linguist and Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL and Intercultural Education) at The University of Manchester (UK). He founded and co-ordinates the LANTERN doctoral research group and he was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2012 for his leadership of this doctoral community. His academic and professional practice falls within the following domains: teacher education for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), researcher education, intercultural communication/education, and ethnomusicology.

Achilleas Kostoulas is an Applied Linguist at the University of Thessaly (Greece). His academic and professional background is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. He trained as an English language teacher at the University of Athens and completed his postgraduate and doctoral studies in language education at the University of Manchester. He is the author of several monographs and edited collections focusing on diverse aspects of language teaching and language teacher education.