Savvas Voutyras is a senior lecturer in Politics at the Department of Humanities & Law, Bournemouth University, UK. He holds a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex.

Postdoc researcher on the ERC-funded project "Reel Borders" (led by prof. Kevin Smets). She was trained as a political scientist, specialized in International Relations and obtained a PhD in Gender Studies (2020).

Sofie Vermoesen is a teaching assistant at the department of Communication Studies and PhD candidate at ECHO. She is an alumna of the MSc Communication Studies - Media & Culture (2022) at the VUB and has a BA in Media Management and Technology (2018).

Stijn Postema holds a professorship Journalism and Communication at Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences.