Laura B. Perry is Professor of Comparative Education and Education Policy at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Her research focuses on educational disadvantage and inequalities, especially as they appear between schools, and the systems, structures and policies that shape them.

Emma Rowe is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar (2020) and is a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Grant (DECRA) 2021-2024. Her research is interested in policy and politics in education.

Christopher Lubienski is Professor of Education Policy at Indiana University, and a Fellow with the National Education Policy Center. His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking.