John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is President of the British Sociological Association and co-editor (with Stephen Turner) of Sociology Transformed, a series of case studies in national histories of sociology, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
John Scott is Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. He previously held professorships at Leicester University, the University of Essex and the University of Plymouth. He is a former President of the British Sociological Association and Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is author of Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction.