Fiona Williams is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds. Her role at Leeds included Director of the ESRC CAVA Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare. 

Fiona is also a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the RSA. In 2004 Fiona was awarded an OBE for services to social policy. 

Fiona’s publications have for many years been central to developing critical approaches to social policy. Her latest book Social Policy. A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Polity, 2021) brings the global crises of care, climate change, and racialized borders to bear on an understanding of social policy. Until 2014 Fiona was co-editor of Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, and is now one of its trustees.

Fiona is the social sciences editor for the Journal of the British Academy.

Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015 . She has worked extensively on the social and cultural histories of photography, especially in colonial environments, and on photography and history.    

She is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she was founding director of the Photographic History Research Centre. She has Honorary Professorships in the Department of Anthropology University College London, and University of Durham. From 2016-22 she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London. Until 2005 she was a curator at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at ISCA, University of Oxford, where she is now Research Affiliate. Her most recent books are The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination (2012), Photographs and the Practice of History: a short primer (2022), and the co-edited What Photographs Do: the making and remaking of museum cultures (2022).  

Elizabeth is a temporary editor of The Journal of the British Academy, helping with the relaunch.

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the English Association, a trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association, and a past president of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

He has written numerous books on late medieval and Renaissance culture, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005); Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012); Lying in Early Modern English Culture from the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance (2017), and Literature and Class from the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is one of the general editors of the Works of Thoams Nashe, forthcoming from OUP.

He is one of the humanities editors for the Journal of the British Academy, and previously edited Renaissance Studies, Reformation and The Spenser Review.