Sarah Earle is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at The Open University. She co-edited the Public Health series published for the OU course K311 Promoting Public Health (SAGE 2006).

Carol Komaromy is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at The Open University. She is also the production chair of the Death and Dying course and well published in the sociology of death and dying.

Caroline Bartholomew is a Course Manager of the Death and Dying course in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University.