Alice Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK. She was director of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BSC70) for ten years from 2010 to 2020. She has published extensively on social, educational and health inequalities using longitudinal data analysis.

Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Her books include The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010 (2014) and Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution (2019).