Helen Jones has worked in education for the past 25 years and is currently a Lecturer in Education at UCL Institute of Education. Helen is completing PhD research into children's comics making and is the co-founder of Yo Comics!, a comics fair for and by kids.

Lucy Starbuck Braidley is a former primary school teacher and, as Head of School Libraries, leads the National Literacy Trust's Libraries for Primaries programme. She is a passionate advocate for the use of comics in the classroom and producer and host of the Comics in Education podcast, Comic Boom.