Meng Tian is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her teaching and research interests lie in distributed leadership, social justice leadership, leaders’ and teachers’ professional development, and education policy. Her research applies innovative and arts-based research methods to study equity, diversity and inclusion issues across various levels of education. Her empirical research investigates countries in east and south-east Asia as well as northern and western Europe.

Liselotte Englund holds a doctorate in journalism from Gothenburg University, Sweden, and is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication studies, based at the Risk Management Department at Karlstad University, Sweden. Since January 2021, she is Deputy Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Social Sciences. Her main research focus is within the field of trauma journalism. During recent years, she has conducted studies on journalists work at disasters and survivors' experiences of media exposure as well as crisis communication and media management in healthcare and authorities. Englund also has around 30 years of experience as a journalist and independent writer, including as science and medicine editor at the Swedish Radio and editor of humanities and social sciences at the Swedish Research Council. In 2010, she was awarded Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study, from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

Jess Zenden is a regional adviser in the EU-Asia project of Leadership and Ethics for Public Health and Development (LEPHD), and director of the WHARTON Subgroup on Partnership.

Miquel Torrents-Ticó is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki. Through his PhD, he takes an interdisciplinary approach complementing social and natural sciences. Member of the Hyaena Specialist Group from the IUCN Species Survival Commission, a National Geographic Explorer and a Fulbright grantee. His research area in biocultural diversity has taken him around the world, from tropical rainforests to arid deserts, enabling him to work in countries such as Costa Rica, Ecuador, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Kenya. His interest in biocultural conservation has grown along with the ever-increasing conflicts between humans and wildlife.