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Dr Theresa G. Mercer is a casual Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cranfield Institute for Resilient Futures, Cranfield University. In this post, she is involved in the characterisation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban environments. This is part of the larger NERC BESS project consisting of a consortium of Sheffield, Exeter and Cranfield universities. Theresa also recently held a casual lectureship post in the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, teaching in the field of environmental engineering. Prior to this post, Theresa was a Lecturer in Environmental Science in the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences at Keele University (2012). She completed a Postdoctoral Research Assistant position within the Centre of Adaptive Science and Sustainability (2011) and an interdisciplinary PhD in Physical Geography (UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded) under the supervision of Professor Lynne Frostick at the University of Hull (2010). Her research interests span the environmental science spectrum, with particular emphasis on environmental geochemistry, soil science, waste management and environmental pollution.

Dr Andrew P. Kythreotis graduated with a PhD in Human Geography from the Department of Geography, University of Hull, in 2010. He then held a one-year post-doctoral position in the Logistics Institute and the Centre for Adaptive Science and Sustainability before undertaking an ARC Super Science Research Fellowship at the Global Change Institute and School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is currently a Lecturer and Fellow under the Cardiff University Serious Brain Power initiative in the School of Geography and Planning. His research and teaching revolves around the broad theme of climate change and how its policy and governance is constructed around scalar ontologies. In 2014, Andrew became an Associate Editor for the journal Regional Studies, Regional Science and an adaptation sub-group member for the Climate Change Commission for Wales. He is a Member of the Regional Studies Association, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Royal Geographical Society.

Dr Zoe P. Robinson is a Reader in Physical Geography and Sustainability and Director of Education for Sustainability at Keele University with responsibility for embedding sustainability in the curriculum and student experience. Zoe completed her PhD in groundwater geochemistry in Iceland in 2003 and worked as a hydrogeologist in environmental consultancy before returning to Keele as a Lecturer in 2004. Zoe was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2012 for her work contributing to the field of education for sustainability in addition to teaching innovations relating to open educational resources and employability. Alongside continuing research in cold environments and the behaviour and geochemistry of groundwater systems in glacial environments, and energy-focussed community knowledge networks, Zoe has been involved in a wide range of sustainability education and research projects.

Dr Terje Stolte is a management consultant for Valcon A/S, a leading Scandinavian management consultancy firm. He is specialised in demand chain management, business transformation, supply chain risk management and process optimisation. Terje has a BA in Management and Marketing, an MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and a PhD in Supply Chain Risk Management. Terje has gained a wealth of industry insight working for a range of companies in industries such as manufacturing, oil and gas, logistics, supply chain management and textiles, as well as has worked as a research associate on government contracts. Today, Terje is working with a range of organisations, from the automotive sector to pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding globally. Given his background, Terje has published his work in academic, peer-reviewed journals as well as practitioner journals.

Dr Sharon M. George is Course Director for the MSc in Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology, Postgraduate Taught Director for the Faculty of Natural Sciences and part-funded as an Ogden Science Officer supporting uptake of physics in education and researcher in green technology development and materials science. She entered further and higher education as a mature student in 1995 and completed a dual honours degree at Keele University in Biology and a PhD in chemistry at Ceram Research and Keele University on “Thermochemical Corrosion of Alumina-Zirconia-Silica Refractories for Glass Furnace Regenerators”. She was appointed as Keele’s Business & Enterprise Manager in 2003, supporting academic collaboration with industry and community, commercialisation of research, consultancy and lecturing in entrepreneurship. In 2008, she developed her own technology development company, NovaSci Ltd, delivering project management, research consultancy and course design and delivery for a number of organisations and universities nationally and internationally. She took up her current academic role in 2009 and the additional role of Manager of the Keele University Sustainability Hub and Earth Observatory to establish and run the centre supporting academic collaboration with industry, community and the public sector and teaching and outreach in areas of energy development and sustainability.

Stephanie K. Haywood joined the University of Hull in 1996 from University College London (UCL) and became Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering in 1999. She has broad experience from a variety of different institutions in the UK and Europe (including University of Oxford, Middlesex University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and IMEC Belgium) and has also worked in the industry for Lucas Advanced Engineering (now TRW). Having held the positions of both Head of Engineering and Deputy Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science & Engineering at Hull, from 2010-2015, Stephanie was Director of the Centre for Adaptive Science and Sustainability, an industry-focussed research centre, working on renewable energy and low-carbon projects, including offshore wind and energy from waste. Supported in this role with a Royal Academy of Engineering Industry secondment, she has been working with the Spencer Group, who wish to develop associated relevant links with academia in both research and teaching. Locally, Stephanie is on the board of HETA (Humberside Engineering Training Association), which trains apprentices for major local companies, and she has been active in developing part-time progression routes through to IET and IMechE accredited BE degrees and hence CEng status via the apprentice route. Stephanie was a member of the REF2014 Sub Panel 15 for General Engineering. A former Chair of the Professors and Heads of Electrical Engineering (PHEE), a sectoral group of the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), she is now EPC President.