Rosie Sage is a qualified speech and language pathologist, psychologist and teacher, as well as former Dean at the College of Teachers. Presently, she leads the Practitioner Doctorate at Buckingham University. She has published 23 books and over 150 refereed papers in journals and has been lead speaker at many international conferences on Language, Education and Employment. Riccarda Matteucci is regarded as an international specialist in European languages and literatures, communication, intercultural awareness, linguistics, psycholinguistics and the psychology of communication and learning.