Lesley Stirling is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1989. A major focus of her research has been discourse analysis and representation, and she has conducted and supervised many projects in this area. She has been chief investigator in 3 large and a number of small ARC or other funded projects investigating aspects of language from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Her current interests centre around narrative, with respect to language disorders and more generally. She has been working on autism and narrative since 2004, with this Discovery Grant funded project beginning in 2006.

Graham Barrington is a medical practitioner who has a Master of Public Health and a Masters degree in Cognitive Science with a thesis topic of mental state modelling, relevant to research in autism. He currently works in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Royal Children's hospital, Melbourne and is engaged in paediatric specialist training overseen by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He and Lesley Stirling have been undertaking collaborative work on autism since 2004.

Susan Douglas is the Research Associate on the Discovery Grant funded project on autism and written narrative led by Lesley Stirling. She is also a postgraduate student in the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University, Australia where she is nearing completion of a PhD, researching semantic and syntactic development in the language of children with autism, with a particular focus on the extent to which language and cognitive development are interrelated.

Eric Huang is a Research Assistant providing IT services to the StoryLincs project. He is an undergraduate student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne. His involvement in the Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) project at National ICT Australia (NICTA) gave him the entrance to the field of linguistics research.