Russell Foster is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a PhD student at Newcastle University. His work concerns the EU as a modern empire. He is the author of 'Tabula Imperii Europae: A Cartographic Approach to the Current Debate on the European Union as Empire', published in Geopolitics.

Matthew Johnson is a Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He is interested in the evaluation of culture and the effect of forms of intervention on wellbeing. He has authored Evaluting Culture (Palgrave) and edited The Legacy of Marxism (Continuum).

Mark Edward is an independent researcher. He completed his PhD in politics at Newcastle University and is interested in popular culture and world politics, with a focus on future practices of consumerism represented in film.