Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. His books include Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1996); Decentring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis (2000); Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography (2006); and Muslim Spaces of Hope (2009, Zed Books).
Nafhesa Ali is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her doctorate focused upon the experiences of ageing among British Asians in northern England, a subject on which she has published articles in journals of Sociology.
Claire Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York. She is the author of Britain Through Muslim Eyes (2015), British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011), and Rivers of Ink: Selected Essays (2017). She is a regular columnist for Dawn, the longest-running broadsheet newspaper in Pakistan.
Indrani Karmakar is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literary Studies in English in Rhodes University, South Africa. She completed her PhD from the University of York, UK. In her fellowship, she is expanding and reworking her doctoral thesis on Indian women writers' depictions of motherhood into a monograph. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, South Asian literature, feminist theories, motherhood, women's writing, and diasporic literature. She is Social Media Editor for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Kristina Diprose is a Senior Research Fellow within the Born in Bradford team at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She completed her PhD in human geography at the University of Leeds in 2015, then worked on several research projects at the University of Sheffield: Intergenerational Justice, Consumption and Sustainability in Comparative Perspective, Localising the Sustainable Development Goals, and Storying Relationships. She has also worked in research and evaluation for The Young Foundation and national Citizens Advice. Her research interests include childhood, youth, and intergenerational research, co-production, and sustainability through an environmental justice lens.