Hana Morel is an archaeologist and heritage practitioner, currently working as Senior Policy Advisor (Climate Change) for Historic England. Previously, she worked as Research Associate at University College London where she led the AHRC-funded Heritage Priority Area project, 'Opening Pathways across Heritage Research, Policy and Practice', on the need to engage with government policy on regional, national and international levels and support the contribution which heritage research can make to public policy and heritage-related policy.

Michael Dawson is archaeologist and heritage consultant, Director of Heritage at RPS. Author of several books including the recent Heritage Under Pressure (2019). His research interests lie in the application of conservation policy and he is editor of the journal Historic Environment Policy and Practice and a panel lecturer at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education.