Susan Condor is Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Social Political and Geographical Sciences, at Loughborough University, UK. She has written numerous articles on vernacular political understanding. Her empirical work combines survey methodology with close textual analysis of the content and structure of political reasoning in formal political debate, and unstructured everyday talk. She has held major research grants to study national framing in the British press, and identities, policy attitudes and constructions of citizenship in the context of regional, English, UK and EU governance.

Cristian Tileagă is Lecturer in Social Psychology and member of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on developing critical approaches for researching social and political life. He has written extensively on political discourse, critical psychology of racism, collective memory and social representations of national history. He is author of Political Psychology: Critical Perspectives (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) and Discourse Analysis and Reconciliation with the Recent Past (Romanian). He is co-editing Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations (with Jovan Byford, Open University) and serves on editorial and advisory boards of international journals in Romania, Brasil, and Germany.

Michael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He was written books on a number of different subjects, including nationalism, psycho-analytic theory, rhetoric, ideology and attitudes towards the British Royal Family. His latest book is ‘Learn to Write Badly: how to succeed in the social sciences’ (published by Cambridge University Press, 2013).