Martin McIvor is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on philosophical issues in health policy and biomedical research. He recently completed a PhD on Marx's earliest writings and their relation to German Idealism at the London School of Economics, where he taught history of political thought. As well as serving on the Historical Materialism editorial board he is a co-organiser of the Marx and Philosophy Society. He has work forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and is currently preparing a book on Marx and contemporary theory to be published by Continuum in 2007.
Contact: martin.mcivor-alumni@lse.ac.uk

Paul Reynolds is Reader in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University in the UK. His research interests are focused on: Marxist and radical theories of emancipatory politics, with particular reference to sexuality; contemporary Marxist theory and politics and its radical critique: and issues of ethics in theorising radical critiques, social research and intellectuals in contemporary society. As well as his membership of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism, he also sits on the Advisory Board of Studies in Marxism and is one of the editors of the International Journal of Graduate Education. He is also co-convenor of the Society for Applied European Thought, an international network of critical scholars, and the convenor of the Social and Cultural Movements Research Group at Edge Hill. He leads and teaches on the Sociology Undergraduate Progranmme at Edge Hill and plays a significant role in the administration and supervision of postgraduate research students and support for postgraduate supervisors. He has taught at seven other UK universities and has also been visiting lecturer at Palecky University in the Czech Republic and Visiting Research Fellow at Murdoch University in Perth. Outside of his academic and intellectual affiliations, Paul is a significant collector of the music of Jimi Hendrix, an imbiber of both grape and grain and a lover of travel, museums and galleries. His philosophical disposition sits between nihilism as a lifestyle choice and recognising the wretchedness of the human condition. When he grows up he would like to be a train driver.