About Alison Gilchrist Alison Gilchrist is an independent consultant and research fellow at the University of Birmingham. She has worked for almost four decades in community development as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher, policy advisor and manager. Books by Alison Gilchrist Tomorrow’s Communities Lessons for Community-based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises contributions by Diane Warburton, Mary Brydon-Miller, Rosalind Beadle, Alice Willatt, John Restakis, David Boyle, Alison Gilchrist, Neal Lawson, Colin Miller, Marjorie Mayo, Steve Wyler, Philip Ross, Gabriel Chanan, Martin Simon, Pat Conaty & Ed Mayo edited by Henry Tam