Paresh Wankhade is the Professor of Leadership and Management at Edge Hill University Business School. A former civil servant specialising in indirect taxation, he is a founder Editor of International Journal of Emergency Services (an Emerald group Publication) and is recognised as an expert in the field of emergency management. His research and publications focus on analyses of strategic leadership, organisational culture, organisational change and interoperability within the public services with a special focus on emergency services. His publications have contributed to inform debates around interoperability of public services and challenges faced by individual organisations. Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom David Weir is Visiting Professor at Edgehill University, and has held Chairs at several Universities including Glasgow, Bradford, Liverpool Hope, UCS and SKEMA in France. He has worked with several police forces and has published extensively on risk management and undertook a major study with the Police Federation on the work of police sergeants in the UK. He has supervised more than sixty PhD theses on aspects of management and has written several books and many journal articles.Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
