Susan Liddy lectures in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at MIC, Limerick. Her research interests and publications relate primarily to gender and diversity issues in the Irish screen industries; older women on screen and behind the camera; motherhood and caring; and harmful behaviours in the screen industries workplace. She is President of Women in Film and Television International and Chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland. She is a board member of the Writers Guild of Ireland, Raising Films Ireland and the Irish Film Institute. She is the Director of the Catalyst International Film Festival in Limerick - a festival that prioritises films and filmmakers from underrepresented groups.

Deirdre Flynn is Lecturer in 21st-Century Literature at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick and a member of the Young Academy of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy. She has published widely on contemporary literature, precarity, migration literature and Irish studies. She is the secretary of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL).