Authors

Associations follows the trade-press convention of house bylines: a small editorial team writing under consistent names, so readers can follow a writer's beat and record over time. What we ask to be judged on is the work: sourced, dated and corrected in place.

• Rankings & comparisons editor

  Marcus Whitaker

  Runs the rankings desk: the top lists, the head-to-head comparisons and the AMS market coverage, scored on the published rubric.

• Features writer

  Owen Pritchard

  Features writer covering membership operations, retention and digital change in UK non-profits; sceptical by trade.

• Columnist, The Long View

  Hugh Pettifer

  Writes The Long View, a column on leadership and institutional memory from a retired association executive's perspective.

• Governance columnist

  Patrick Delaney

  Governance columnist covering boards, mergers, trustees and trade-association affairs, written from long experience of association boardrooms.

• Technology correspondent

  Sarah Macintosh

  Technology correspondent on the AI desk: adoption surveys, agentic tooling and the governance arguments around member data.