Chris L. Peterson, PhD, has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He specialises in work-related stress, chronic disease and epilepsy and has published extensively in these areas, including several books. He has also recently published the book Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation. He primarily undertakes quantitative research, but also engages with qualitative research. He is a co-investigator on a six-wave longitudinal study of the social aspects of epilepsy and has been chief investigator or co-investigator on a number of large grants.