John H. Harvey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa.  Formerly, he taught at Vanderbilt, Ohio State, and Texas Tech Universities and was Educational Affairs Officer at the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1981 to 1982.  He is a social psychologist specializing in the study of close relationships, attribution and account making, and loss and trauma phenomena.  He is a Fellow of Division 8 of the APA and was a Fulbright Research Fellow studying loss in Romania in the spring of 1998.  He has authored and/or edited over 20 books and has published 130 articles and chapters.  He was editor of "Contemporary Psychology" from 1992 to 1998 and was founding editor of the "Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology" and the "Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss."  With Sage, he published the book "Perspectives on Loss and Trauma: Assaults on the Self" in 2002.
Vicki has worked in the NHS since 1985 in a number of public health roles and is now a freelance consultant. She currently is project manager for the Public Health Practitioner Training Scheme based at NHS Education South Central. She has over 20 years experience in health promotion and public health and has taught on a number of Master’s programmes in public health and health promotion (including London Southbank University, Kings College). In addition Vicki has been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University Business School since 1994, teaching on a range of Management and Leadership courses including the MBA Programme.