Catherine Needham is a professor of Public Policy and Public Management in the Health Services Management centre at the University of Birmingham Her research focuses on social care, personalisation and coproduction within public services, new approaches to public service workforce development and interpretive approaches to public policy. Catherine is also a  Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Paul Cairney is a professor of Politics and Public Policy in the Division of History, Heritage, and Politics at the University of Stirling. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Paul is a specialist in British politics and public policy, often focusing on the ways in which policy studies can explain the use of evidence in politics and policy, and how policymakers translate broad long term aims into evidence-informed objectives.