Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez is Head of Spanish at The Open University. She has conducted extensive research in the areas of Spanish Language Teaching and Historiography of Linguistics. She particularly investigates the interpretation and implementation of linguistic theories into language teaching, and, in connection to this, how language teachers' identities, background and cognition impact on their practices.

Inma Álvarez is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The Open University. She has published on a range of topics including language teaching pedagogies, language teacher identity and language teacher education. She is currently Director of Postgraduate Research Studies in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies and current research focuses on issues regarding inclusion and diversity at postgraduate level.