Dr Yolanda Cerda is Director of the Language Centre at the University of Leeds. She has previously lectured and been involved in academic leadership at the University of Sussex and the University of London. Her research and scholarship interests include language and identities in Higher Education, intercultural communication, language and gender, and critical discourse analysis.

Dr Jules Winchester is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. Jules has presented and published on language use and identity in intercultural and pedagogical contexts, intercultural linguistic politeness, the pragmatics of humour and how humour competency can be developed in the language classroom.