Olive Owl

Family, education and employment history

• Olive is the oldest and wisest of the team and comes from a long line of wise owls. She did very well at school, but set a few feathers flying when she opted not to enter the family catering business but to do astrophysics instead, concentrating particularly on the theoretical side of time and relativity

Character traits

• Wise, sensible, placid, organised, good in a crisis

Issues faced on the journey towards equality

• Family opposition when she left the nest to go to university; predominance of males on her course meant lack of a female role model

Problem solving style

• Just gets on with it, faces up to problems and tackles them

Team role

• Organises, advises, manages, keeps everyone right