Many thanks to Kate Green for permission to reprint the image on the cover. Images are contributed from the ‘Working Together to Create Change’ participatory action research project, funded by Walsall South Health Action Zone led by Maggie O'Neill and Rosie Campbell in partnership with Walsall Community Arts, Walsall Youth Arts, local support agencies, local residents and local sex workers (http://www.safetysoapbox.co.uk). Images reprinted (Figures 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1) with kind permission of artist Kate Green. The images are a product of the expression and sharing of sex workers and residents, and we thank everyone for their commitment to this art project.

Maggie and Teela would both like to thank our students, past, and present, who have taken such a keen and critical interest in the sex industry and our own work. We have been privileged to teach our own research and hopefully inspire others. We would particularly like to thank Susan Lopez-Embury for her knowledge and the time and expertise she dedicated to writing parts of Chapter 6. Her continued efforts to work for sex worker rights are an inspiration.

Finally, but most importantly, the authors would like to thank the sex workers and staff in support projects who have contributed their time, knowledge and views to inform our research over many years.