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Nikki Botting, PhD, is a Professor of Developmental Disorders at City St George's University of London. She is one of the Co-Leads of the BICYCLE project. Her interests lie in investigating the journeys of children with atypical profiles and neurodivergence, and in understanding how talking and thinking skills develop over time. She previously co-led the Manchester Language Study, one of the largest longitudinal projects, which followed children with language and communication difficulties into early adulthood. More recently, Nikki has become interested in exploring wider impacts on communication including social disadvantage, social care, and the COVID-19lockdowns. She is also Co-Investigator on funded research exploring data visualization and language impairment; reading progress in deaf children; and work developing a screening tool for adults with Developmental Language Disorder.

Lucy Henry, PhD, is a Professor of Speech and Language at City St George's, University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Science Research. She is also a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Co-Lead of the BICYCLE study. Lucy’s research focuses on the development of executive functioning (high level thinking skills), memory, language, and school achievement in children and young people. She is interested in how these skills develop and relate to each other during the school years, and in the impact of COVID lockdowns. Lucy has led many previous research projects on language and executive functioning in children with neurotypical and neurodivergent profiles (e.g., language difficulties, autism, intellectual disability, dyspraxia).