Kerry Jones is a Senior Lecturer in End-of-Life Care at The Open University, where her research and teaching focus on death, dying, grief and bereavement and end-of-life care. Kerry has published and presented her research on men's experience of loss, stillbirth neonatal death, parental bereavement, paediatric palliative care, brain injury, dementia and suicide. More recently, her focus has turned to the impact of loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular men's grief, death anxiety among children and young people, and healthcare workers' experiences. Kerry has been an academic consultant on death and dying for programmes for national media, including A Time to Live on BBC 2, and for BBC Radio 3.

Martin Robb is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at The Open University, where his research has focused on issues of gender and care and has included studies of fatherhood, men working in childcare and young masculinities. He is the author of Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities (Routledge, 2020). Martin is co-editor of the journal Children & Society and host of the Careful Thinking podcast. He was the academic advisor for the BBC3 documentary James Arthur: Out of our Minds, which explored issues in men's mental health.