David Hopkins is a tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education and has previously worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, school teacher and university and college lecturer. He has a Ph.D from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and directs, or has directed, a number of national and local research and evaluation projects. Roger Putnam was a Town Planning officer with Middlesex County Council and, in 1962, he became an instructor at the Outward Bound Mountain School at Eskdale. Since 1990 Roger has been Chairman of the National Association for Outdoor Education.