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Charles Lees, City St George's, University of London

Ed Turner, Aston University; Carolyn Rowe, Aston University, and Tobias Hofelich, Aston University

Francesco Aletta, UCL

M Waqas Haider, University of Staffordshire

Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol

Hannah Sarah Wauchope, University of Edinburgh; Gary David Powney, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and Nick Isaac, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Kezia Barker, Liverpool John Moores University

Tony D Sampson, University of Essex

Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Nottingham Trent University

Eoghan Kelly, Queen Mary University of London

Oliver Davis, University College Cork

David Lees, University of Warwick

Leonie Fleischmann, City St George's, University of London

Nelya Koteyko, Queen Mary University of London; Flo Bremner, Queen Mary University of London, and Jessica Aiston, Queen Mary University of London

Eilis Dowd, University of Galway and Sienna Stucke, University of Galway

Giray Gozgor, University of Bradford and Erhan Kilincarslan, University of Huddersfield

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Anglia Ruskin University

Birte Julia Gippert, University of Liverpool and Theresa Squatrito, London School of Economics and Political Science

Sarah Wall, Anglia Ruskin University

Clara Bueno Lopez, University of Oxford

Valerie van Mulukom, Oxford Brookes University

Chris Webber, Anglia Ruskin University and Liam Noll, Anglia Ruskin University

Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick and Colum P. Dunne, University of Limerick

Jacopo Torriti, University of Reading

Ligin Joseph, University of Southampton

Sharon McAvoy, Edge Hill University

Lizzie Simon, University of Exeter and Hannah Bunting, University of Exeter

Laura Serra, London School of Economics and Political Science

David Bailey, University of Birmingham; Felicia Fai, University of Bath, and Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath

Johannes Lumma, University of Oxford and Jasper Verschuur, Delft University of Technology

Eric Gordy, UCL

Doug Specht, University of Westminster; Elena Orap, Bern University of Applied Sciences, and Rob Sharp

Alex Hardy, University of Liverpool

Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton; Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University; Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton; Maria Evandrou, University of Southampton; Michael Skey, Loughborough University; Rob McNeil, University of Oxford, and Rory Fitzgerald, City St George's, University of London

Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield; Andrew Russell, University of Portsmouth; Chris Rojek, City St George's, University of London; David Voas, UCL; Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth, and Steven Buckley, City St George's, University of London

José Iriarte, University of Exeter

Graham Farrell, University of Leeds; Hayley J. Fowler, Newcastle University; Helena Gillespie, University of East Anglia; Helen Roy, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; University of Exeter; Jim Watson, UCL; Stephen Potter, The Open University, and Toby Davies, University of Leeds

Stephen Garland, Malmö University

Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University

Shireen Kassam, University of Winchester and Dagfinn Aune, Imperial College London

Graeme Close, Liverpool John Moores University and Richard Kirwan, Liverpool John Moores University

David Turner, Anglia Ruskin University

Sarah A. Walker, Durham University and Belen Lopez-Perez, University of Manchester

Ned Jenkinson, University of Birmingham and Matthew Weightman, University of Oxford

Kevin Daly, University College Dublin and Louis L'Hôte, University College Dublin

Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University

Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Nottingham Trent University

Denis Flannery, University of Leeds

Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter

Ildar Farkhatdinov, King's College London

Wolfgang Wüster, Bangor University

Shaun Phillips, University of Edinburgh

David Barrett, United Nations University; University of Calgary and Kerry Black, United Nations University; University of Calgary