Dr Ian Taylor is Assistant Professor of Social Science Research Methods at Richmond, the American University in London, and a Distance Learning Tutor with the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.

Dr Oliver Carter is a reader in creative economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University. His research focuses on alternative economies of cultural production; informal forms of industry that are often removed from a formal cultural industries discourse. He is the author of the monograph Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).