Editorial

It is a pleasure to welcome you to this new issue of Contexts. Following my election and appointment as Editor at this year’s AGM, I invited Nicholas Jones to join me as Co-Editor. A position he accepted. Together, we are working to re-establish a balanced and functional editorial group. Although we are still clarifying the “who, how and when” of this structure, our intention
is to form an editorial team of at least three to four members to support the ongoing development of the newsletter.

Due to ongoing technical issues with the GASi website, this issue is being released as a PDF. We are grateful for your patience and understanding. Once we have received the necessary training
to publish issues online, this issue will also be made available on the website. In the meantime, we hope this format allows for all submissions to reach you with ease.

As new editorial partners, Nicholas and I have met several times to consider how Contexts can both preserve what has been valuable and evolve in ways that reflect the needs and interests of
the membership. Our aim is to hold continuity and change at the same time.

We also want to acknowledge, briefly but sincerely, the recent death of Dr Earl Hopper. Earl’s contributions to group analysis have been profound, and his loss is felt deeply across our community. We have chosen to dedicate a section of the March/April issue of Contexts to remembering Earl and other founding figures of our field and will keep fuller reflections and
obituaries for that issue. It is important to us that this commemorative issue has the space and attention it deserves.

In this current issue, we focus on the most recent Foulkes Lecture, the Summer School, and other developments within GASI. Both the membership and the Management Committee have
experienced significant strain in recent times, reflected in the tone and communication of our online meetings. Against this backdrop, we hope that Contexts can continue to serve as a steady,
open platform, a space where members can speak, question, reflect, and contribute freely.

We warmly encourage you to submit material for future issues. Whether long or short, personal or theoretical, critical or celebratory. If it feels relevant to the life of our group-analytic community, we want to hear from you. Contexts moves at a thoughtful pace, and we hope it can offer a reflective distance from the immediacy of online discourse.

Thank you for reading, and for being part of this ongoing conversation.

Mia Wanvik Sternersen & Nicholas Jones