The late Gunnel Melchers was Professor Emerita in the English Department at Stockholm University. Her research was devoted to regional and social variation, with special reference to the north of England and Scotland's Northern Isles.

Philip Shaw is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Stockholm University. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes (2016) and Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: Reflections on Teaching Practice (Routledge 2018).

Peter Sundkvist is Professor in the English Department at Stockholm University. His research is in the areas of English and Germanic phonetics and phonology. He is the author of The Shetland Dialect (Routledge 2020).