Pamela Snow is Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the School of Education at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University. She is a speech-language pathologist and registered psychologist and has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate education and health professionals. Her research has been funded by nationally competitive schemes and concerns the role of language and literacy skills as academic and mental health protective factors in childhood and adolescence. 

She has conducted research on the needs of high-risk groups such as youth offenders, children and adolescents in the state care system and flexible education systems, as well as research advancing evidence in the language-to-literacy transition in the early years of school. With her colleague, Associate Professor Tanya Serry, Pamela established The Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab in the School of Education at La Trobe University in 2020.

Dr Siobhan Merlo is a lecturer in the Learning Intervention team at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and is an experienced Psychologist and Learning Intervention Teacher who has been working in the field for over twenty years. 

She obtained her PhD from the University of New South Wales in the area of Cognitive Load Theory in 2005, and has worked extensively with students exhibiting specific and pervasive learning difficulties, social-emotional and behavioural difficulties. In her practice, she utilises a variety of evidence-based strategies including neuroscientific technology-based approaches to accelerate learning.