Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas is Senior Research Fellow/BCU Athena SWAN Project Manager at Birmingham City University. Kate is an interdisciplinary social scientist specialising in research into higher education and gender. She also uses poetry and illustration to disseminate her research. Kate facilitates writing programmes and communities for female academics at Birmingham City University and for the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE).

Dr Marzia Maccaferri is Associate Lecturer at Goldsmith College, University of London, Department of Politics. Marzia worked at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and held visiting research positions at the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge and at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her interests range across interdisciplinary and comparative European history. Presently Marzia is working on the reception of Gramsci into the English intellectual discourse at the SPIR, Queen Mary, University of London. Marzia is also Executive Member of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy.

Dr Trudi Tate is Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. She is an Official Fellow and Assistant Senior Tutor at Clare Hall. Trudi works on English literature from the 1850s to the present day. Her research interests include: literature and psychoanalysis; literature and the press; Virginia Woolf; writings about the First World War; narratives of the American-Vietnamese War; contemporary Vietnamese diaspora writers; representations of the Crimean War. Trudi is founder and director of Literature Cambridge, which runs summer courses and online courses on Virginia Woolf and other topics.