Marianne Colbran holds a Howard League/Oxford Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Before coming to the Centre she submitted a Ph.D in October 2011 entitled 'Watching the Detectives: A case study of production processes on 'The Bill' which explores how changing working processes, constraints of the medium and changing commercial imperatives all had an effect on representations of the police and policing on the show over its twenty-six year history. She studied for her PhD at the LSE. Before this, she worked as an actress and television scriptwriter, including seven years as a staff writer on The Bill.

Nicola Palmer is the Junior Research Fellow in Global Justice at St Anne's College and convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR), an inter-disciplinary network of University staff and students working on issues of transition in societies recovering from mass conflict and/or repressive rule.

Her current research focuses on criminal justice in post-genocide Rwanda, examining the interactions among international, national and localised criminal courts. She was an American Society for International Law Helton Fellow in 2009 and was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 2007. She completed her undergraduate and honours degrees in law and economics at Rhodes University, South Africa.