Michelle O'Reilly is a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, UK. She specialises in discourse and conversation analysis of child mental health interactions. Michelle has a particular interest in childhood autism and has published books' and papers in both mental health and autism. Jessica Nina Lester is an assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Sl teaches research methods courses, including discourse analysis. Her research is focused on the study and development of qualitative methodologies, with much of her work positione at the intersection of discourse studies and disability studies.