Bunch served as the president of the Chicago Historical Society (2001–2005) and has written on topics ranging from the Black military experience, diversity in museum management and the impact of funding and politics on American museums. His most recent works include A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump.

His first book, No Solution: the Labour government and the Northern Ireland conflict, 1974-79, was based on his doctoral thesis at Queen’s University Belfast. He is working on a study of political culture in the Northern Ireland conflict that pays particular attention to how protagonists drew upon historical analogies and appropriated other contemporary conflicts to articulate their identity or justify their actions. Most recently, he has been developing an interest in the use of digital techniques to analyse and represent the past.

He is a FNR-ATTRACT Fellow and leads the Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project. Cauvin has been the President of the International Federation for Public History from 2018 to 2021. He received his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy, 2012) and worked for several years in the United States at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2013-2017) and Colorado State University (2017-2020). He is the author of Public History. A Textbook of Practice (Routledge, 2022, second edition) and several articles and book chapters on public history.

Pamela has worked across the museum and heritage sector, most recently holding the post of Second World War and Holocaust Partnership Programme Officer at Imperial War Museums. She has a particular interest in forced migration and intersecting identities and is currently undertaking research on refugee networks and Belfast Jewish naturalisation. Her public history experience includes a previous role with Imperial War Museum’s First World War Centenary Partnership and work with Ulster Historical Foundation, Tandem Design, Belfast City Council, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and the McClay Library Special Collections and Archives.

He has been involved in a variety of heritage, tourism and conservation projects over the last 30 years and has written, lectured, and broadcasted on heritage matters. He studied at Queen’s University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Ulster. His doctorate looks at ethical approaches to how the past is remembered in a divided society.

Paul has sat on a variety of Ministerial advisory groups In Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Irish Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage and spoke in this capacity at a ICH conference in Korea in 2024. He is a Visiting Professor at Ulster University, was an Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen’s University of Belfast, and in 2024 he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy. His most recent publication explored the evolution of heritage in the Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace (2023).

Her current research focuses on contributing to theoretical and practical debates on the concept of shared authority through the lens of feminism(s) and design. She is also carrying out research with the House of European History, Brussels, to implement participatory practices which will support the museum in reaching its mission goal of connecting and representing shared experiences and their diverse interpretations. As part of her research, Violeta structures collaboration between academia and industry, conducts visitor observations, facilitates workshops on participatory history making with an international student cohort, and is designing an installation to showcase diversified historical narratives within the museum.

Violeta obtained her PhD from Newcastle University, UK (2022) with a thesis titled Designing with Genius Loci. Her PhD explored the many intersections between Human Computer Interaction and heritage interpretation with the aim of achieving and designing for critical polyvocality. She holds an MSc in International Heritage Visualisation from the Glasgow School of Art, UK (2017), and a joint-honours bachelor's degree, awarded as MA in Digital Media and Information Studies/ Film and TV Studies from the University of Glasgow, UK (2015)

Violeta’s research interests lie in: critical heritage, participatory design, interaction design, social justice, feminist theory, agonism, and creative practice.

He has written extensively on the political and economic history of eighteenth-century Ireland and is the author of The Making of the Protestant Ascendancy (2010) and The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721 (2014). He is currently writing two books, the first a monograph provisionally entitled A Colonial Sinew of Power: Ireland as a Fiscal Military State, 1691-1801 and the second a jointly authored (with Prof. Ciaran O'Neill and Dr Mobeen Hussain) monograph entitled Cultivating Virtue? Trinity's Colonial Legacies. A Director of the Castletown Foundation, he is very interested in the public history and legacies of Irish country houses and landed estates.