Nicola Fear joined the Academic Department of Military Mental Health at King's College London (KCL) in 2004 having trained as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University of Oxford. Nicola has also worked as an epidemiologist within the UK Ministry of Defence. Since 2011, Nicola has been Director of the King’s Centre of Military Health Research (KCMHR) alongside Professor Sir Simon Wessely. In 2014, Nicola was awarded a Chair in Epidemiology. Nicola is the lead epidemiologist on the KCMHR military cohort study and leads several studies examining the impact of military service on families.

Theresa McShane is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, Fellow of QUB’s Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation (CESI) and member of the Research Centre for Stress, Trauma and Related Conditions (STARC). Her research is varied and focuses on vulnerable and hard to reach populations using innovative research methods including peer research with young people and co-design. She has applied these methods in a diverse range of studies; with care leavers with mental health needs and disabilities; fathers parenting; socially vulnerable mothers; cancer caregivers; sexual health; and people who self-injure. ​Theresa is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also supervises postgraduate research students. She is currently working as a Research Fellow on the UK Veterans Family Study facilitating research design, qualitative interviews, and analysis.

Rachael Gribble is a Lecturer in War & Psychiatry at King’s College London. With a background in public health, the focus of her work since 2012 has been on the mental health and wellbeing of military and emergency responder families with a primary aim of understanding how occupation influences the well-being of both the serving person and their family members. She has undertaken work to explore how aspects of military life such as relocation, separation, and deployment affect the spouses/partners and children of military personnel but has also worked on projects looking at women’s health and public attitudes to the military. Dr Gribble is experienced in mixed-methods research using both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as a range of review methodologies.

Glen Dighton is a Research Associate at King’s College London, joining King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) in July 2021. Prior to this, he completed a PhD using mixed-methods investigating disordered gambling in ex-military personnel, and held a post-doctoral position at Swansea University managing the UK Veterans Health and Gambling study. Glen’s current role within the UK Veteran Family Study focusses on the quantitative survey.

Eric Spikol is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, member of the Research Centre for Stress Trauma and Related Conditions (STARC) team, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He completed both his Bsc and PhD in psychology at Ulster University, exploring the impact of the prenatal maternal social environment on offspring mental health in middle childhood. His main research interests are PTSD/trauma, psychosis, behavioural epigenetics, and large population mental health. His work on the UK Veterans Family Study involves quantitative survey design and data analysis.

Charlotte Williamson is a Research Assistant at King's College London. She has worked as a Research Assistant in the field of military mental health since April 2020, joining the King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) in September 2021. Prior to this, she completed an MSc in Mental Health, Ethics, and Law from King’s College London. Charlotte's role on the UK Veterans Family Study focuses on recruitment for the quantitative survey.