About the Editors

Cara Courage is a Placemaking Academic and Arts Consultant, Writer/Commentator, Curator and Project Manager. She is author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice, and works as an Adjunct at University of Virginia, researching and developing creative placemaking metrics, as a strategist at Futurecity, whilst running her own placemaking projects. She has been listening to The Archers for around fifteen years and grew up with the programme on her grandmother’s farm on Exmoor. She talks about the pleasure and plain of her Archers fandom in a talk My BDSM relationship with The Archers.

Nicola Headlam is the Urban Transformations & Foresight Future of Cities Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is an adaptable urbanist with expertise in city governance, economic development and urban policy. She is passionate about role of universities in public policy and practice, knowledge mobilisation; transfer, exchange and co-production.