Dr Sarah Raine is a Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Research Council (SFI-IRC) Pathway Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Shane Blackman is a Professor in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), Research Fellow of the Danish National Centre for Social Research and a Research Associate in the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London.

Dr Robert McPherson is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications at Canterbury ChristChurch University, UK.

Dr Iain A. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Music, and Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Commercial Music at University of the West of Scotland, UK.