Khawla Badwan is Reader in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Ruth Churchill Dower is a PhD scholar at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, exploring young children's nonlingual ways of being through experiments in movement.

Warda Farah is a Social Entrepreneur, Speech & Language Therapist, Writer and Consultant.

Rosie Flewitt is Professor of Early Childhood Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Abigail Hackett is a Professor of Childhood and Education at Sheffield Hallam University.

Rachel Holmes is a Professor in the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Christina MacRae is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Vishnu KK Nair is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at University of Reading.

David Ben Shannon is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.