Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. She co-edits Babel: The Language Magazine, co-authored Stylistics (Cambridge University Press 2010) and Keywords in the Press (Bloomsbury 2017), and has published widely on textual meaning in politics and poetry. She is Chair of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics.

Matt Evans is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests are in critical discourse analysis and his publications include the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Language and Conflict (2019). He is Assistant Editor of Babel: The Language Magazine.

Hazel Price is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests include corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She co-edited Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda (Routledge 2018) and is Editorial Assistant for Babel: The Language Magazine.

Erica Gold is Reader in Forensic Speech Science at the University of Huddersfield. Her research is largely focussed on the variability of phonetic parameters within and between speakers, and her research has been cited in court cases worldwide. She compiled WYRED (West Yorkshire Regional English Database), the world's largest forensically-relevant database of speech.