Tove Larsson is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in the US. She is also affiliated with Uppsala University (Sweden) and University of Louvain (Belgium). She specializes in corpus linguistics, register variation, and L2 writing. She also has a keen interest in research methodology and research ethics. Her work appears in journals such as Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Register Studies, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Her most recent book is a co-authored volume titled Doing linguistics with a corpus: Methodological considerations for the everyday user (Egbert, Larsson, & Biber, CUP, 2020).

Luke Plonsky (PhD, Michigan State) is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches courses in SLA and research methods. His work in these and other areas has resulted in over 100 articles, book chapters, and books. Luke is Senior Associate Editor of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Managing Editor of Foreign Language Annals, Co-Editor of De Gruyter Mouton's Series on Language Acquisition, and Co-Director of the IRIS Database (iris-database.org). In addition to prior appointments at Georgetown and University College London, Luke has lectured in China, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Puerto Rico.

Scott Sterling is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and TESL at Indiana State University. His main areas of research include meta-research and research ethics in applied linguistics. His scholarly work also focuses on community engagement and science communication efforts within his local community. 

Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. She has published widely on corpus compilation and on the syntax and pragmatics of Early and Late Modern English, with special reference to speech-related language. Together with Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg) and Ewa Jonsson (Mid Sweden University), she is currently collaborating on a monograph on the socio-pragmatics of intensifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus. She is also editing Volume 2 titled Sources, Documentation and Modelling for the New Cambridge History of the English Language series (CUP), in collaboration with Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University).

Kate Yaw (PhD, Northern Arizona University) is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida. She has worked in TESOL since 2007, with experience in teaching, teacher training, and program administration. Her research interests include perception and production of speech, language attitudes, cognitive processing of L2 accented speech, and the role of listeners in successful oral communication, as well as research methodology and quantitative research ethics.

Margaret Wood has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection between corpus linguistics and law, and her current research focuses on the situational and linguistic variation in statutory language. She is also interested in the application of corpus linguistic methods to statutory interpretation, register analysis, and quantitative research methodology.