?Alethea Melling is the Director of the Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Gujurat, Pakistan. Working internationally as well as locally, she focuses on the development of emancipatory community pedagogy.Ruth Pilkington is visiting Professor to the Centre for HE Research and Practice, University of Ulster, UK, and a Professorial Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Her approach to teaching and learning focuses on a dialogic approach using processes of deliberative reflection and the concept of critical professionalism.