Michael Dunford is Professor of Economic Geography at the
University of Sussex. In 2000 he was elected member of the Academy
of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS). In 1996-2002
he was Editor of Regional Studies. In 2003 he received the Royal
Geographical Society Edward Heath Award for geographical research
in Europe. He has held Visiting Professorships at the universities
of Pavia, Toulouse, Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Campinas in
Brazil, Oslo and Sciences-Po in Paris. His previous publications
include Cities and Regions in the New Europe (1992) and
Successful European Regions: Northern Ireland Learning from
Others (1996).

Lidia Greco is Lecturer in the Sociology of Economics and
Labour Processes at the University of Bari, Italy. She previously
worked at Trinity College, Dublin, where she carried out two
EU-funded research projects. As a consultant, Lidia has worked for
the University of Durham and the Sussex European Institute, and
more recently for the European Union. She is the author of
Industrial Redundancies: A Comparative Analysis of the Chemical
and Clothing Industries in the UK and Italy (2002) and
co-author of Building the European Research Area: European
Socio-Economic Research in Practice (forthcoming).