Andrea is an award-winning news broadcaster and journalist with over 25 years’ experience as national TV and radio presenter. She is currently a BBC Radio 4 presenter and documentary maker. She regularly presents news and current affairs programmes including The Media Show, Last Word, Any Answers and Woman’s Hour.​

Andrea hosted Bloomberg Television’s business programme The Pulse and was the main anchor of ITV’s Weekend News. Andrea has also anchored bulletins for Channel 5, NBC Asia and CNBC Hong Kong. As ITN International Correspondent Andrea was the first British television journalist to visit Guantanamo Bay. She has reported live from Iraq, Kosovo, Gaza and Afghanistan.

Dan is one of the UK’s best-known television presenters and the creative force behind History Hit TV, a video-on-demand history channel which builds on the success of the UK’s most successful history podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit.

Dan’s TV career began in 2002 when he co-presented the BBC’s 60^th anniversary special on the Battles of El Alamein with his father, veteran broadcaster Peter Snow. Dan and Peter then went on to present the BAFTA-winning Battlefield Britain. Dan has since written several history books and has presented numerous history series and special events for the BBC. He is a regular face on BBC One’s The One Show.

Dan is on a mission to reinvent how history is told in the digital age through video, podcasts, online articles and more. He travels the length and breadth of the country to keep up with the cutting edge of history, talking to experts, historians, and the people who were actually there.

Ali is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker at Al Jazeera English. She has covered stories in Latin America, southern Africa and the Middle East, and is currently the presenter of All Hail The Algorithm, a five-part series exploring the impact of algorithms, biometrics and big data on our everyday lives.

Ali has received several accolades including being selected by the International Women’s Media Foundation for a fellowship to cover under-reported regions; three Lovie Awards for European Internet Excellence and an Australian Walkley Award for current affairs reporting.

Ali holds four degrees including a Master of Science from the London School of Economics where she was awarded the Lucy Mair Prize for best dissertation.

Jigna’s research focuses on the environmental impact of broadcasting and media technology. She is interested in how we assess environmental impact, sustainable design and using sustainability to drive innovation.

Prior to starting up this research area, she developed new technology for TV production, in particular, real-time 3D graphics for sports and virtual studios. Her areas of research included real-time image processing, camera tracking, augmented reality and 3D modelling. She contributed to the Piero sports graphic system which was awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Jigna has a MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Innovation and Design for Sustainability at Cranfield University and is a Chartered Engineer.

Mariana’s research focuses on the use of sound for accessibility, as well as the study of acoustical heritage. In addition to researching and lecturing in the field of sound, Mariana also leads the BSc in Film and Television Production.

She has a background in music and sound design, having been awarded the BA degree in Arts with specialisation in Music and the MA degree in Post Production with specialisation in Sound Design.

In 2013 she completed her PhD at the University of York on the importance of virtual acoustics to further our understanding of medieval drama. Mariana has received funding for research from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the European Commission, and the Royal Society