Teresa Crew is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bangor University, Wales, researching social class inequalities in higher education. A working-class student and now academic herself, she combines scholarly analysis with a commitment to challenging deficit narratives about working-class people in academia and beyond.

Deirdre O'Neill is a working-class academic and filmmaker. She is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Hertfordshire. Her book Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool explores class and film. She is the co-ordinator of Inside Film and the principal editor of the Journal of Class and Culture. Her co-edited volume Beyond the Council Estate: Cinematic Space(s) of the Working-Class is published by EUP 2026.