Pragyaa Chandel is a journalist who has worked with Zee Business and ET NOW as a broadcast reporter and anchor. She is a Master's graduate of the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Dublin City University.
Niko Hatakka is a Research Fellow of the Populism In Action Project (PiAP) at the University of Birmingham. His research specialism is the relationship of populism and media, populist political communication, populist parties, and populist online movements.
David Atikins is studying Politics and International Relations at the University of Birmingham. He is a journalist with the Redbrick newspaper and hosts the Political Radio Show on Burn FM.
Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis is Lecturer in Politics at Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Stijn van Kessel is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the Co-Investigator of the project “The Survival of the Mass Party: Evaluating Activism and Participation Among Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe” (aka “Populism In Action”), funded by the ESRC (ES/R011540/1) and hosted on EA WorldView. Stijn's main research interests are populism, Euroscepticism and pro-European activism. He is joint convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy; joint editor of the Routledge Extremism & Democracy book series, and joint editor of the journal Politics. He is also the author of Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and articles in journals including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Government and Opposition, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Journal of European Integration and Journal of Political Ideologies.
Tereza Capelos is Senior Lecturer in political psychology at the Institute of Conflict, Cooperation and Security at the University of Birmingham.
Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is Chair of Global Art History at the University of Birmingham. She specializes in global histories and contemporary art, including problems of restitution, indigenous heritage, and colonial museums from the 16th century to the present.