Seán Roberts is an evolutionary linguist at Cardiff University. He uses a range of quantitative methods to understand how languages emerged and how they change. He's interested in how languages adapt to individual cognition, interaction and their wider ecology. He built the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD), which aims to collect all the theories about how language evolved. Academic profile (Cardiff), Academic profile (Bristol), blog, twitter.

Hannah Little is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of the West of England and a Data Fellow at the South West Creative Technology Network. She teaches topics including digital communication, public speaking, and research methods. Her main research interests are the use of methods from cultural evolution to look at how scientific information is transmitted online, in the lab, and in the real world. Her current research projects involve looking at escape rooms, twitter and science comedy. You can hear her talk about science fiction and cultural evolution on BBC Radio 4's Stranger than Sci-Fi. Academic profile, personal webpage, twitter profile.

Catriona Silvey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. Her research focuses on the acquisition and evolution of word meanings. On the acquisition level, she is interested in how differences in language input affect the acquisition of abstract word meanings, potentially leading to variation in the development of higher-order thinking skills. On an evolutionary level, she is interested in how cultural transmission amplifies individual-level learning and communicative pressures to result in structured word meanings that are shared within a speech community. Her short stories have been performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her debut novel Meet me in another life will be published in 2021. Academic profile, personal webpage, twitter profile.

Kateryna Krykoniuk is a research assistant at Cardiff University, leading data collection on the project "Causal approaches to investigating language evolution". Her research interests include cognitive, psycholinguistic and evolutionary aspects of language, in particular morphology (derivational and inflectional), as well as the interaction between morphology and syntax. She employs new statistical methods including various measures of entropy. Kateryna holds two PhDs, one from the University of Kyiv, and one from Cardiff University. Academic profile