John Tomaney, Lucy Natarajan, Sarah Chaytor, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Siobhan Morris, Myfanwy Taylor, Maeve Blackman, Katherine Welch

John Tomaney is Pro-Provost (Regional Communities and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College London. Additionally, he is Chair of the Trustees at Redhills – the Durham Miners’ Hall – a charity in North East England that supports former coal mining communities, and Trustee of Sacriston Youth Project. 

Lucy Natarajan is Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning UCL and collège solidaire (co-operative board) member of Territoire Europe, a European association that promotes participatory planning and place-making.

Sarah Chaytor, is Director of Strategy & Policy for UCL Research, Innovation & Global Engagement and oversees the UCL Public Policy programme to strengthen connections between research and public policymaking. She is Co-Chair of the University Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) and a Visiting Professor of Practice at Newcastle University.

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is Associate Professor of Twentieth Century British History at UCL, where her research focuses on class, gender, politics and deindustrialisation.

Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros is Research Associate and Honorary Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning UCL and Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy University of Cambridge.

Siobhan Morris, is Assistant Director of UCL Grand Challenges, University College London's flagship programme tackling complex societal issues through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Siobhan has published widely on structural inequalities. 

Dr Myfanwy Taylor, is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Urban Economies and Planning and Policy Fellow (Regional Communities) at University College London’s Bartlett School of Planning. She is a community- and policy-engaged academic with expertise in local, urban and regional economic development, planning and democracy.  From 2018 to 2021, Myfanwy was Senior Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded Markets4People research project at University of Leeds, which has informed policy and practice on social value, retail gentrification and alternatives locally and nationally. Other recent projects include Economic Development From Below (funded by the Leverhulme Trust and Bartlett Innovation Fund) and the Tottenham/Durham Learning Exchange (Leverhulme Trust and UCL Public Policy Expert Engagement Award). Myfanwy co-leads the Bartlett School of Planning’s Everyday Economies research cluster and serves in a voluntary capacity as Trustee of the West Green Road/Seven Sisters Development Trust in Tottenham where she lives.