Dr Mattia Zingaretti, FHEA, is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at York St John University. He earned his PhD in Linguistics and English Language from the University of Edinburgh in 2023, where he held teaching and research roles working on projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Erasmus+, and Una Europa, before joining York St John in the same year. His research interests centre around second language acquisition and teaching, including the effects of bi/multilingualism from a linguistic, cognitive, and emotional perspective, as well as bi/multilingualism and education. At York St John, he is the Programme Lead for Undergraduate Degrees in Linguistics and TESOL, the Research and Knowledge Exchange Lead at the Community Language School, and a Steering Group Member of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research.

Prof Vicky Chondrogianni is Professor of Bilingualism and Language Development at the University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Cambridge in 2008. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she held research and teaching positions at Bangor University (UK), Aalborg University (Denmark), and the University of Reading (UK). She has also carried out research visits at the City University of New York, where she is currently affiliated with the faculty at the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center. Her interests include typical and atypical bilingual development and processing from a cross-linguistic perspective, and the interplay between executive functions and language abilities. At the University of Edinburgh, she is the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Research Director, Programme Director for the MSc in Developmental Linguistics, and Programme Director for Bilingualism Matters.

Prof D. Robert Ladd, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1978. He held academic positions at institutions across the US and Europe before joining the University of Edinburgh in 1985 and becoming Professor in 1997. His research focuses on phonology and phonetics, and the relation between them ("laboratory phonology"), as well as intonation and prosody, including focus, emotion, pitch perception, tone languages, and links between language and music. He was a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, where he served as President from 2010 to 2014.

Prof Antonella Sorace, FBA, FRSE, FRSA, and FAAAS, is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor at University College London. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and has held various research appointments and visiting professorships across the world, including at the University of Utrecht, the University of Trondheim, the University of Tromsø, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Siena. She is internationally known for her interdisciplinary research on bilingualism across the lifespan, and for her commitment to building bridges between research and society. She is the Founding Director of the non-profit organisation Bilingualism Matters, which currently has more than 30 branches in four different continents, and was awarded a Beltane Fellowship for Public Engagement.