Chris Creegan is a public policy consultant and writer. He has spent his career in the public and third sectors and has held a number of senior leadership roles, most recently as Chief Executive of the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability between 2013 and 2019.  Chris has extensive experience as a charity and not for profit executive. He was Chair of Scottish Adoption between 2008 and 2015, and the Scottish Association for Mental Health between 2015 and 2022. He has been a member of Social Security Scotland’s Executive Advisory Body since 2018, and is currently Vice-chair of Dignity in Dying and a trustee at Waverley Care. He is a regular blogger, occasional columnist, and commentator across social media, newspapers and radio. He is currently Chair of the Trust.

Sourit Bhattacharya is Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Edinburgh. His research and teaching interests include colonial and postcolonial studies, minority ethnic literatures, environmental humanities, and translation and cross-cultural studies. He has written a book on the representation of catastrophic events in postcolonial Indian literature (Palgrave, 2020), and edited a volume on the radical Indian-Bengali author, Nabarun Bhattacharya (Bloomsbury 2020). Sourit is a founding editor of the journal, Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. 

CD Boyland is a [d]eaf poet, visual poet and editor who lives in Cumbernauld near Glasgow. His first, full-length collection of poems (‘Mephistopheles’) will be published by Blue Diode in 2023. He has also published pamphlets (‘User Stories’; Stewed Rhubarb, 2020 and ‘Vessel’; Red Squirrel, 2022) alongside collections of visual/experimental work. Together with artist/poet Julie Laing, he curates ‘Off-page’, an ongoing series of anthology/exhibitions centering visual poetry and the poetic visual (@offpagevispo). He also co-edits The Glasgow Review of Books. Twit: @chrisdboyland/Insta: @cdboyland

Laurie Manson has been a Chartered Accountant since 1983, and has over 40 years experience in advising businesses and their stakeholders across a wide variety of sectors, scale of operations, and legal jurisdictions. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow three times over, mostly recently completing a PhD that indulged her fascination with all things American. Laurie is a former Trustee of the University of Glasgow Trust, a former non executive board member of a Scottish Government Agency, has both been a member of, and chaired, committees within her professional body, and is currently an active member of the University of Strathclyde’s Intergenerational Mentoring programme at a Glasgow Secondary School.

Greg Thomas is a poet, writer, and arts journalist based in Glasgow. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (Liverpool UP: 2019) and poetry collections including from im and not this (SPAM, 2021), particulates (timglaset, 2022), and candle poems (Poem Atlas, 2023). He makes poem-objects at oo-press.com. He also works as a communications specialist in the third sector and is currently the communications manager for Humanist Society Scotland. A former post-doctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Greg is a longtime fan of Edwin Morgan’s work and is a specialist on Morgan’s concrete, sound, and visual poetry. He is currently Secretary of the Trust.

Sarah Walker is a commercial litigator practicing in London but hailing from the Kingdom of Fife.  Whilst her immediate experience of treading the boards is restricted to the courtroom, she is a passionate advocate of the arts with a particular interest in supporting the development of new and emerging artists.