Robert C. Dempsey is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), and an Associate Fellow and Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. Robert is broadly interested in understanding how social influence factors and individual differences constructs influence health and wellbeing. Robert joined MMU in November 2019 after holding previous lecturing and research positions at Staffordshire University and the University of Bradford. Robert earned a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Manchester. Robert's research aims to generally understand the role of social norms (typically perceived norms of unwritten rules or expectations which guide or restrict behavior) in health-related behaviors and outcomes, including risky and protective health behaviors, help-seeking, and suicidality.

Alyson Dodd is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Northumbria University. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester in 2009 and became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017. Her research expertise is in the psychological mechanisms underlying mood dysregulation, particularly in mania risk and bipolar disorder. She is particularly interested in the links between emotion regulation and mental health, and how this may be a transdiagnostic risk factor.

Patricia A. Gooding received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Manchester, UK. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Division of Psychology & Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester. Patricia's research work involves addressing feelings of suicidality in vulnerable groups. Those groups include people suffering from experiences of psychosis, PTSD [trauma], unipolar depression, and bipolar disorder. In addition, Patricia's work involves research into suicide in prisoners.

Steven H. Jones obtained his Ph.D. in abnormal psychology from the University of London in 1989. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and co-director of the Spectrum Centre for Mental Research at Lancaster University, with a research focus on the psychological understanding and treatment of people living with bipolar disorder and related conditions. He is the chair of the Divisional Research Committee, a member of the Faculty Research Committee and Division of Health Research Executive Committee, and also a member of the Guideline Development Group for Bipolar Disorder for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.