Stefan is Professor of Respiratory Science at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth Hospitals. His laboratory in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research focuses on the role of stress signalling in lung disease. His clinical research focuses on pleural medicine, especially the genetics of pneumothorax. He co-directs the NHS Rare Disease Collaborative Network (RDCN) in Familial Pneumothorax, chairing its bimonthly national MDT.

Bernadette Holmes is Director of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE). She has made major contributions to languages education in England through her work as a modern languages advocate, teacher, adviser, inspector, teacher trainer, researcher, curriculum and policy developer and author. 

Martin Crowley is Professor of Modern French Thought and Culture and Director of Outreach in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as General Editor of the journal, French Studies.

Jane Driver is experienced working with disadvantaged cohorts, and her work was recognised in 2021 with a Gold Pearson National Teaching Award for work with Gypsy-Roma and other hard-to-reach communities. Jane founded the ALL Peterborough MFL and EAL Hub and co-created nationally recognised language projects including the Foreign Languages Spelling Bee, Translation Bee and Primary Bee. She has a passion for educational equity, and a strong belief that languages and internationalism can be a vehicle for social mobility and community cohesion.

As Faculty Lead of Languages at Joyce Frankland Academy in Saffron Walden, Essex, she leads a strong team of French, German and Spanish language teachers, strong advocates of a pupil-centred classroom. She believes in pupil-led teaching and learning, where students take an active role in their language acquisition.  She works with Pearson Edexcel examination board as a French and Spanish examiner and with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where she delivers language teaching workshops to language teacher trainees. Since 2021, she works  with Cambridge Alliance Française as an Education development strategist  for Under-18 pupils. As part of her research, she explored the use of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), a method that aligns with her belief in creating meaningful, real-world contexts for language learning. She also focuses on the importance of target language use in language lessons.