Tanya Evans is a public historian who specializes in family history, the history of the family, cultural heritage, history and sport, gender in sport, community, local and regional history, memory and life-stories, histories of charities and NGOs, history and the media and history in tourism. She is also a qualified yoga teacher, has a Cert III in fitness and she is completing her Cert IV in fitness.

Tiffany Hambley is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on how the body / mind relationship is articulated in literary memoir. Her creative work has been published in the UTS Writers’ Anthology, the Big Issue, Trunk: Volume II, Blood, and Mud Map: Australian women’s experimental writing (TEXT special issue) among others. Tiffany holds an MRes and an MA in Creative Writing. She also has degrees in Law and Gender Studies. 

Associate Professor Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University) writes, directs and edits creative hybrids of drama, documentary and dance. She researches creative practice, distributed cognition and feminist film histories. Karen’s short films about historical women editors (2016, 2018 & 2020) have won 34 competitive national and international awards from peak industry bodies and film festivals. Her film Breaking Plates was awarded ‘Best Short Documentary’ at the 2025 Antenna International Film Festival for “... a playful invitation to consider very serious questions of feminism and voice, as well as dynamics of structure and agency” (Jury citation). Karen is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Creative Film Editing, now in its 3rd edition with translations into Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Arabic. Her 2025 monograph Shirley Clarke Thinking through Movement (EUP) is the first film philosophy book on Clarke and offers a path breaking feminist approach to film authorship. 

Louise Richardson-Self is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Her research specialty is Feminist Philosophy, and she is particularly interested in theorising gender inequality and its intersections through the lens of social imaginaries. She is the author of Hate Speech Against Women Online: Concepts and Countermeasures and Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation.

Kate Rossmanith is an ethnographer and a writer. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. She researches emotion concepts in legal settings, as well as forms of writing. She is the author of Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law (nominated for literary awards in Australia and the UK), and co-editor of Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multidisciplinary perspectives (Routledge 2022). Her essays and poetry have been published in the USA and Australia. She is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, in 2026.