Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, where he teaches postgraduate courses on research methods. He was formerly an Associate Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), responsible for research capacity building in the management field, and also the Economic and Social Research Council's Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development.
Alison Wray is a Research Professor of Language and Communication at Cardiff University. She has a longstanding commitment to researcher training, including the developing of academic expertise. She is co-author of Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, now in its 4th edition (SAGE, 2021) and lead author of the popular undergraduate research methods textbook Projects in Linguistics (Hodder, 2012). Her research concerns the modelling of lexical storage and processing, particularly in relation to formulaic phrases, and it has been applied to language learning, evoluti