Robert Klassen is Professor and Chair of the Psychology in Education Research Centre in the Department of Education at the University of York in the UK. His research focuses on the psychological characteristics of teachers, and specifically on teacher motivation, personality, and emotions. His current work, funded by the European Research Council, focus-es on linking teachers’ non-cognitive attributes with teaching effectiveness. Rob has active international collaborations on four continents, with current collaborators from universities, school districts, and ministries of education. Before entering academia, Rob worked as a teacher and school psychologist in Canada. He is a Chartered Psychologist in the UK.

Jane Sandall has clinical background in nursing, health visiting and midwifery and an academic background in social science. She is a NIHR Senior Investigator and Cochrane author, an Adjunct Professor, in the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney and have been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research in maternal health and reproduction is interdisciplinary between the clinical and social sciences and involves a range of methods. It focuses on a) the implementation of maternal health policy and effective solutions at a health system and service delivery level, and the impact on health outcomes and users' experiences, to improve quality and safety of care b) the social and organisational implications of the translation of innovative health technologies into health care.

Rosalind Searle is an organizational psychologist with particular expertise on organizational trust and distrust, focusing on key factors including: leaders and follower relations, and the influence of organizational systems notably HRM and control systems in a health and social care context. She has received both UK ESRC and Professional Standards Authority funding to examine counterproductive work behaviour. The latter multi-method project on 6700 health professionals identified a group of specific interest for this study: a female perpetrator only category, suffering from ego depletion due to their attempt to respond to workplace stress and strain, often following return from ill health.