Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network.

Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University -Camden, USA. He is co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research.