Kasia Nawratek is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture, a registered architect, and a writer. Her research brings posthuman approaches to the climate crisis into dialogue with literary and narrative methods of architectural investigation. Grounded in Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of polyphony, her teaching nurtures inclusive, dialogic studio cultures and frames speculative design as a form of world-building. She edited Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts and Tensions (Routledge, 2022). Her pedagogical work was recognised with the SCOSA Innovation in Architectural Education Award (2024). Alongside her academic practice, she writes fiction in Polish: her children's book Kresek, Bartek i calkiem zwyczajny poczatek won the Kornel Makuszynski Award (2017), and her YA novel Ja, swinia was published in 2023.

Christopher Little is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Development in Manchester Metropolitan University's central University Teaching Academy. Chris offers academic development consultancy at Manchester Metropolitan and co-leads the university Advance HE Recognition provision. His leadership in this area of staff development and recognition was crystallised in 2024 with the award of Principal Fellow from Advance HE. His research interests include academic literacies, undergraduate research cultures, assessment and feedback and inclusive teaching practices and he remains research active in all of these areas.