All research requires the collaboration of a whole range of different people, and the richness of the data is often a consequence of the quite distinct personal and professional competences that each individual brings to a project. This research is no different and the individual competences and specialisms are multiple. One of the particular differences to be found across the individuals who have been involved in the data collection is their degree of familiarity with Bradford, and Manningham in particular. Dr Yunis Alam is of Pakistani heritage and is Bradford born and bred, and Manningham has been a part of his social terrain throughout his life. Charles Husband had lived in Manningham for almost 10 years and his role in the fieldwork involved him walking the streets of Manningham once more after a lapse of 11 years. For both, there was a familiarity with the area, but with differing experiential connections to the area, where the differences in their age and ethnicity would inevitably shape the perceptions of the current scene there. On the other hand, Rūta Kazlauskaitė-Gürbüz was deliberately recruited to the team because not only was she not familiar with Manningham, but, indeed, had no prior knowledge of Bradford. Both she and Charles Husband were responsible for the observational fieldwork carried out in Manningham, and it was felt that there was a definite need for a male and female perspective to be available for the collection of the data on the lived streetscape of ‘Walking Manningham’. Additionally, the fact that Rūta was not British, and had not lived in Britain, meant that she brought an outsider's perspective to the inter-ethnic relations she observed. Dr Joanna Fomina, on the other hand, had lived in Bradford for a year as a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow, and as a Polish-speaking resident of Warsaw, she brought a dual and complementary sensibility to interviews, and analysis, for the chapter on the Polish community of Bradford. Dr Jörg Huttermann has visited Bradford on a number of occasions and has a view of Manningham shaped by his complementary research on the inter-ethnic dynamics in Marxloh near Duisberg. His sustained theoretical engagement with the development of this research, and his acute awareness of the similarities and differences between Marxloh and Manningham, has provided an invaluable critical voice to the continuing dialogue within this project.