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Professor Harry Sumnall is Professor in Substance Use at LJMU. He regularly advises the UK Government on drug prevention and education, and has extensive experience in delivering and researching this type of work in schools.

Dr Emma Ashworth is Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at LJMU. Her research focuses on school-based mental health programmes, looking at ways to prevent mental health difficulties from developing and to promote good mental health in young people.

Dr Hannah Carver is Associate Professor in Substance Use and Co-Director of the Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research at the University of Stirling. Most of her research is about problem substance use and homelessness, but she is also interested in young people’s substance use prevention.

Dr Brendan Collins is a Senior Lecturer and public health expert at the University of Liverpool. He has worked in local and national government, the NHS, and for UNICEF.

Professor Andrew Percy is a criminologist at Queen’s University Belfast. He is engaged in the study of adolescent development, in particular the emergence of risk-taking behaviour such as alcohol and drug use.

Evie Gates is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at LJMU. Her research focuses on substance use in minoritised racial and ethnic groups.

Laura McCulloch is a Researcher at LJMU. Her work focuses on substance use, young people, and drug trends.

Dylan Irvine is a Research Assistant at Liverpool John Moores University with a background in Brain and Behaviour. His interests focus on health-related behaviours and public health, particularly in relation to young people.