Cressida's research and consultancy career has focussed on increasing community accessibility to heritage, including work for museums, communities and Indigenous groups in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She has worked extensively in the repatriation field, as well as on general community heritage and museum projects, and has wide experience of project design, management, implementation, collection cataloguing, research and fundraising. Cressida is a published researcher and is currently co-chair of the World Archaeological Congress Repatriation Committee and a member of the UK Government's Human Remains Advisory Panel. She gained her PhD from Southampton University Archaeology Department in 1998.

Fiona has extensive experience running projects in both the private sector and academia. Her interests have focused on the presentation of the past to the public in museums, historic homes and archaeological sites. Her doctoral thesis from UCL London, is on the presentation of the history of transatlantic slavery at historic homes and plantations in the Southern USA. She has undertaken audience development and interpretation work for a variety of clients including the V&A. She has also coordinated archaeological and archival research in Louisiana, USA, focusing on the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and is an expert on archaeological textiles. She has considerable teaching experience and is currently a part-time lecturer in Museums and Galleries at the University of Southampton.

Mari is a freelance photographer, graphic designer and website consultant. She has also previously worked as a documentary maker, assistant director and production coordinator in the UK film industry. Her credits include such films as "Shakespeare in Love", "An Ideal Husband" and "Quills" as well as clinets such as Jeep, Morgan Stanley and Dupont in commercials. She mixes these artistic and technical skills with a degree in Intellectual History and varied historical research for both films and books. Mari has a portfolio of her photography and website design which can be seen at www.littlewhitedog.co.uk

Judith is a social development and gender consultant specialising in the use of personal testimony and the facilitation of collective memory. Much of her work has been concerned with social recovery, particularly with communities affected by prolonged conflict. She has worked in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Southern Africa as well as in the UK. She has extensive experience of community-based consultation and problem analysis, strategic planning and needs assessment, project design, management and evaluation. She is a published researcher. She studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University, and has a post-gradutate diploma in Community Development from the University of London (1987).