Maria Power is a senior research fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Her work focuses mainly on peacebuilding within divided communities in Northern Ireland. Her most recent publications include Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge, 2021) and Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts, (Palgrave, 2023). She is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of the Bible in the conflict in Northern Ireland which will be published by Routledge in 2027.

Maggi Savin-Baden is a professor and senior research fellow at Las Casas Institute for Social Justice Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has authored, coauthored and edited 29 books in the areas of innovative learning, digital fluency, artificial intelligence, the postdigital, digital afterlife, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, problem-based learning and the metaverse. She currently co-editor of the Metaverse book series. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and wild swimming.