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Professor Vicky Karkou – Co-founder
Director of the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University and Creative Arts Psychotherapist
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Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston – Co-founder
Counselling Psychologist in NHS Talking Therapies at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Salford
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Professor Scott Thurston – Co-founder
Director of the English Language, Literature and Creative Practice Research Group; Poet, Performer and Professor of Poetry and Innovative Creative Practice at the University of Salford