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