Gary Craig is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Hull and Associate Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation. His research focuses on 'race' and ethnicity, poverty and local governance. He is President of the International Association for Community Development. Tania Burchardt is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include theories of social justice, measurement of equality, and welfare and employment policy. David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice at the University of Bristol and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. His research interests include social and distributional justice, social harm, scientific measurement of poverty, child poverty and human rights, childhood disability, crime and poverty, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, and rural poverty.