David Wilson is one of the UK’s leading and most controversial criminologists. He is Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, and Vice Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Vice President of New Bridge and Chair of the Friends of Grendon. He has presented documentaries on the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5, and is the author of the best-selling A History of British Serial Killing (2010).
Paul Sullivan is a writer and photographer whose work has been published widely, including in The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, National Geographic and by the BBC. He is the author of many books on music, travel and culture.
Gervase Rosser is Fellow and Tutor in the History of Art at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. His research and publications have focused on the social, visual and religious culture of medieval and Renaissance cities
Jerome Boyd Maunsell is a writer and critic based in London. He is also the author of Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography (2018) and his essays have appeared, among other publications, in frieze and the Times Literary Supplement.
Gwendolyn Leick is Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Her publications include Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (2000) and The Babylonians: An Introduction (2002).
Alison Syme is Associate Professor in the Departments of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siècle Art (2010).
Alcestis P. Rodi is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Patras, and a practising architect in Athens.
Alexander Tzonis is Professor of Architecture at Tsinghua University, China, and Professor Emeritus at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His numerous books include Le Corbusier: Poetics of Machine and Metaphor (2001).
Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and author, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland. He lives in Oxford.