Dr. Etain Quigley is a Lecturer in Law and Maynooth University. She specialises in the areas of youth justice, neurodiversity, and mental health. She lectures in the area of youth justice at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At postgraduate level, she teaches youth justice from a global perspective, exploring key global through a scientific and comparative lens. She is a co-founding editor of the journal Neurodiversity and has published in the areas of youth justice, neurodiversity, and mental health. Dr. Quigley has expertise in the area of leading large and small-scale projects, H2020, Irish Research Council and seed funding. Finally, Dr. Quigley is co-founder of an international network of experts in the area of neurodiversity from various disciplines. This network spans both the global north and south and incorporates experts from youth justice to education.Dr. Blánaid Gavin, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, works clinically with children who experience mental health difficulties. She subspecialises in ADHD treatment. She is also involved in teaching, training and research in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr Gavin has led training developments to heighten awareness of children and young people's mental health across a variety of sectors including health and education. She has co-written guidelines for GPs, a book for teachers and multiple peer reviewed papers in national and international journals. She led the development of the first interdisciplinary research in Ireland exploring the experiences of young people attending mental health services and also led the foundation of the first special interest group in Youth Mental Health in Ireland which led to the development of in the International Declaration in Youth Mental Health. She is Chair of the university EDI working group on Neurodiversity and is co-lead of the research programme on Making UCD a Neurodiversity Friendly Campus. She is also joined module coordinator of the Certificate and Diploma in Neurodiversity. She is a co-founder of the new SAGE journal Neurodiversity. She works with a variety of voluntary organisations to support collaborative models of awareness and system development.