Ella Harris is an independent creative researcher who specializes in 'crisis cultures' and creative methods. Her previous publications include Rebranding Precarity (2020) and Encountering the World with i-Docs (2025).

Mel Nowicki is associate professor in urban geography at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of several books, including Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State.

Tim White is a researcher and writer interested in housing, cities and inequality. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cian Oba-Smith is an Irish Nigerian photographer born and raised in London. His work focuses on communities and subcultures around the world with a particular interest in approaching subjects that are often misrepresented with a view to presenting them in an alternate light. The relationship between human experience and environment is at the core of his projects.