Dr Rosalie Burnett is a semi-retired Research Associate, formerly Reader in Criminology, at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, which she joined in 1990 after gaining her doctorate at Oxford (DPhil in Social Psychology). Before then she was a Probation Officer. Her specialist research subjects during her career have included personal relationships; rehabilitation and desistance from crime; and miscarriages of justice.

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow and currently Professor of Psychology and Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Greater Manchester. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA and has been an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. Amongst other publications, he is the author of Thinking Psychologically and The Academic Quality Handbook. His current research interests include dispositional contempt, AI in psychotherapy and relationship personalities.

David Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, and former Head of School, at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and has taught at both. Having started his career in medical sciences, he mainly researches pathways into and out of dangerous situations including road traffic collisions, evacuations, fights, relationship breakdowns, and mental disorders. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Psychologist.