Mark Cronin is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care, Newman University, UK. He has worked in both the local authority and voluntary sector as a children and families social worker. Mark's interests include safeguarding, social policy, and working with children and families.

Karen Argent is former Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Newman University, UK. She worked as an inclusion worker on one of the first Sure Start programmes and is a co-founder of the Letterpress Project. Her research interests include representations of diversity in children's literature.

Chris Collett is former Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Newman University, UK, where she specialised in SEND and inclusion. Chris has taught children and young people with moderate to profound learning disabilities for 25 years and was a local authority advisory teacher for children under 5 with SEND.