Dr David Wainwright is a Senior Lecturer at the School for Health, University of Bath. Previously he worked at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. He has also worked in the Social Medicine Department at the University of Bristol as a member of the Medical Research Council’s Health Services Research Collaboration, and as a course convenor for the Research Design and Methods Units of the Professional Doctorate in Health programmes, and supervises doctoral research. In addition he is conducting his own research, with specific areas of interest in the sociology of health and illness; psycho-social influences on illness behaviour; work stress; and non-specific arm pain. In January 2007 he was awarded a grant from Kent County Council for £30K for the evaluation of Kent County Council’s New Opportunities for Work programme.