Amy Skinner is Associate Professor in Co-Production in Mental Health Research at York St John University. She has specialist interests in scenography, mental health, and neurodiversity. Her book Meyerhold and the Cubists, on scenography and visual art, was long-listed for the 2015 Prague Quadrennial book prize. Her most recent publication explores scenography as resistance in mental health settings.

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th Century History at Hull. She specializes in media, popular culture, and national identity in post-Cold-War Europe, and has been publishing on Eurovision since 2008. Her most recent book is the edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025).