Bio: Fay Cosgrove is an ESRC-funded PhD candidate at Cardiff University. She has a master's degrees in education and another in social science research methods. She has conducted research for the National Network for Excellence in Maths. Fay's research interests include working qualitatively and quantitatively with teacher professional learning, the STEM gender gap, psychometric scale development, and maths anxiety in children and teachers. She is also a primary teacher and a senior leader at her school. Fay is a regional lead practitioner for primary numeracy, facilitator for the Outstanding Teacher Programme and consulted as part of Welsh Government's Expert Panel.

Bio: Robert Evans is a Professor of Sociology in School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. His work focusses on the nature of expertise and has included both theoretical and methodological contributions. These include the development of the idea of interactional expertise and the use of the Imitation Game to research this concept. This work has been published in a series of work co-authored with Harry Collins that includes Rethinking Expertise, Why Democracies Need Science and Experts and the Will of the People. More recent work has included an analysis of expert advice during the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic and he is currently involved in a community science project that works with local citizens to monitor air quality and support their continued engagement with planning decisions relating to a biomass incinerator plant.